Any attempt to start abiword from a gnome menu (sawfish manager) consistently results in the following alert: Application "/usr/share/AbiSuite/bin/AbiWord_d" (process 7363) has crashed due to a fatal error. (Segmentation fault) No other information I can find anywhere with a possible exception of entries of that sort in /var/log/messages: Aug 1 15:40:51 work8 gnome-name-server[6799]: starting Aug 1 15:40:51 work8 gnome-name-server[6799]: name server starting Aug 1 15:40:57 work8 gnome-name-server[6799]: input condition is: 0x10, exiting These seems to be time-related (I tried a number of times and collected a number of similar message blocks). A name server for a test machine did exist on a local network, operational, properly configured and there was no problems with a name resolution otherwise. Michal michal
This was caused by a slightly binary incompatible update in libpng without rebuilding abiword. Either get the package from rawhide or just recompile. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13707 ***
AbiWord is still crashing in exactly the same manner in RC1 (Pinstripe2).