On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:51, Jon Zweig wrote: > Hello- > > I installed the Ximian Desktop which included AbiWord onto RH 7.3. > Everyting worked great except AbiWord which gave the splash screen then > a segmentation fault hang. I reinstalled AbiWord from the RPM then the > source but keep getting the following hang: > > when I attempt to run abiword I get the error: > > AbiWord was not able to add its fonts to the X font path. This does not > mean there is anything wrong with your system but you will need to > modify your font path manually. > > when I click OK, I get another box telling me > > AbiWord could not find any local font files in its font path. Often this > error is the result of invoking AbiWord directly instead of through its > wrapper shell script. The script sets the environment variable > $ABISUITE_HOME which should point to the directory where AbiSuite > Components reise. The current font path contains the following > directories: [/usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts].
That's right... > > When I check this directory, it is full of afm, afb and atm files. Have > been unable to find the wrapper shell script to invoke. /usr/bin/abiword (I assume things throughout, if it follows other RH designs) is a symlink to the wrapper (AbiWord), which sets a bunch of environmental stuff (including fontpath) and then calls AbiWord_d, or alternatively, AbiWord_s. Parhaps that old b0rken issue the ximian/rh folks kept stumbling over with emptying the fontdir files due to an extra newline (or something to that effect)? What version of abiword is this? -MG ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the message body.
