Package: abiword Version: 2.6.8-5 Severity: normal When opening a file you can't read, abiword will silently fail, displaying an empty page instead. No error is given, so I initially assumed the .doc was mangled beyond what abiword could extract bits from. (Yes, I agree, .doc files are a terrible thing.) I later realized I simply hadn't authenticated to AFS, so any read attempts were getting an EPERM. An easier way to reproduce this is to chmod -r a file (the format doesn't seem to matter) and try opening it with abiword.
Oh, right. To make things even more confusing, if you try to open the file through the file open dialog, it won't even show up. Let me know if you need any additional information. Basically, I would expect either an error dialog, or at least an error on stderr to indicate that something went wrong. Since a lot of people probably don't run abiword from the commandline, I imagine an error dialog would be more appropriate. Ivan -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages abiword depends on: ii abiword-commo 2.6.8-5 efficient, featureful word process ii gsfonts 1:8.11+urwcyr1.0.7~pre44-4 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre ii libaiksaurus- 1.2.1+dev-0.12-6 an English-language thesaurus (dev ii libaiksaurusg 1.2.1+dev-0.12-6 graphical interface to the Aiksaur ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.20-2 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libatk1.0-0 1.24.0-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libenchant1c2 1.4.2-3.3 a wrapper library for various spel ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libfontconfig 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.3.9-4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libfribidi0 0.10.9-1 Free Implementation of the Unicode ii libgcc1 1:4.3.3-3 GCC support library ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.0-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnomecanva 2.20.1.1-1 A powerful object-oriented display ii libgnomeprint 2.18.6-1 The GNOME 2.2 print architecture - ii libgnomeprint 2.18.4-1 GNOME 2.2 print architecture User ii libgoffice-0- 0.4.2-4 Document centric objects library - ii libgsf-1-114 1.14.11-3 Structured File Library - runtime ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libice6 2:1.0.5-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 1.12-1 GNU Libidn library, implementation ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libloudmouth1 1.4.3-1 Lightweight C Jabber library ii libncurses5 5.7+20090404-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libots0 0.5.0-2 Open Text Summarizer (library) ii libpango1.0-0 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpixman-1-0 0.14.0-1 pixel-manipulation library for X a ii libpng12-0 1.2.35-1 PNG library - runtime ii libpopt0 1.14-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii libreadline5 5.2-4 GNU readline and history libraries ii librsvg2-2 2.22.3-2 SAX-based renderer library for SVG ii libsm6 2:1.1.0-2 X11 Session Management library ii libstdc++6 4.3.3-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libwmf0.2-7 0.2.8.4-6 Windows metafile conversion librar ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d ii libwpg-0.1-1 0.1.3-1 WordPerfect graphics import/conver ii libwps-0.1-1 0.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt ii libwv-1.2-3 1.2.4-2 Library for accessing Microsoft Wo ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library ii libxcb-render 0.3.3-2+b1 utility libraries for X C Binding ii libxcb-render 1.2-1 X C Binding, render extension ii libxcb1 1.2-1 X C Binding ii libxft2 2.1.13-3 FreeType-based font drawing librar ii libxml2 2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13 compression library - runtime Versions of packages abiword recommends: ii abiword-help 2.6.8-5 online help for AbiWord ii abiword-plugin-grammar 2.6.8-5 grammar checking plugin for AbiWor ii abiword-plugin-mathview 2.6.8-5 equation editor plugin for AbiWord ii aspell-en [aspell-dictionary] 6.0-0-5.1 English dictionary for GNU Aspell ii ttf-liberation 1.04.93-1 Free fonts with the same metrics a ii xpdf-utils [poppler-utils] 3.02-1.4 Portable Document Format (PDF) sui Versions of packages abiword suggests: pn abiword-plugin-goffice <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org