Description of problem: When I start Abiword, I get a crash immediately, before any window is shown. I'm pretty sure that Abiword has worked for me before on FC5, that's why I'm putting this here instead of upstream. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abiword-2.4.5-2.fc5 Backtrace: [havardw@lupus ~]$ gdb abiword GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.122rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/abiword Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0xbb1000 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1208834352 (LWP 25121)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208834352 (LWP 25121)] FcStrBufString (buf=0xbfee23e4, s=0x0) at fcstr.c:736 736 while ((c = *s++)) Current language: auto; currently c (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 1 (Thread -1208834352 (LWP 25121)): #0 FcStrBufString (buf=0xbfee23e4, s=0x0) at fcstr.c:736 #1 0x00183433 in FcNameUnparseLangSet (buf=0xbfee23e4, ls=0xb7cbefb0) at fclang.c:554 #2 0x00189246 in FcNameUnparseValueList (buf=0xbfee23e4, v={bank = 1502243225, u = {stat = 40, dyn = 0x28}}, escape=0x19d52b "\\=_:,") at fcname.c:809 #3 0x00189507 in FcNameUnparseEscaped (pat=0xb7f1a004, escape=1) at fcname.c:885 #4 0x00189575 in FcNameUnparse (pat=0xb7f1a004) at fcname.c:838 #5 0x0823d583 in XAP_UnixFontManager::scavengeFonts (this=0x87ead90) at xap_UnixFontManager.cpp:137 #6 0x0823d84b in XAP_UnixFontManager (this=0x87ead90) at xap_UnixFontManager.cpp:49 #7 0x082389e2 in XAP_UnixApp::_loadFonts (this=0x8757148) at xap_UnixApp.cpp:248 #8 0x08238b52 in XAP_UnixApp::initialize (this=0x8757148, szKeyBindingsKey=0x83f419e "KeyBindings", szKeyBindingsDefaultValue=0x83eb435 "default") at xap_UnixApp.cpp:155 #9 0x08145101 in AP_App::initialize (this=0x8757148) at ap_App.cpp:104 #10 0x0813e32e in AP_UnixApp::initialize (this=0x8757148, has_display=true) at ap_UnixApp.cpp:340 #11 0x0813faa0 in AP_UnixApp::main (szAppName=0x83eb3c7 "AbiWord", argc=1, argv=0xbfee47c4) at ap_UnixApp.cpp:1445 #12 0x0813bc6a in main (argc=-1074912264, argv=0x0) at UnixMain.cpp:26 (gdb)
Reporter: could you try 2.4.6?
2.4.6 works for me on Fedora Core 6. I get a crash on Fedora 7, but with a different trace, so I'll file a separate bug for this.