I installed abiword using yum in the standard way, but it segfaults on startup. Here's the backtrace I got (with lots of lines omitted indicated by ...): : gdb abiword GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.6-45.fc8rh) ... This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... (no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/bin/abiword (no debugging symbols found) ... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208345984 (LWP 2769)] 0x00b37df0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (gdb) backtrace #0 0x00b37df0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 #1 0x00b2ff4f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 #2 0x00b3322a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 #3 0x00b33d0a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 #4 0x00b33d89 in FcNameUnparse () from /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 #5 0x08241684 in XAP_UnixFontManager::scavengeFonts () #6 0x082418bb in XAP_UnixFontManager::XAP_UnixFontManager () #7 0x0823c992 in XAP_UnixApp::_loadFonts () #8 0x0823cb02 in XAP_UnixApp::initialize () #9 0x08147ea1 in AP_App::initialize () #10 0x081410de in AP_UnixApp::initialize () #11 0x08142820 in AP_UnixApp::main () #12 0x0813ea4a in main () (gdb) q This is just FYI; it isn't a problem for me since I just wanted to try it out.
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug report. Unfortunately, that stack trace is not very useful in determining the cause of the crash, because there is not a symbolic stack trace. In order to get a symbolic stack trace, the appropriate debuginfo packages need to be installed. In order to accomplish this, you can issue: # yum -y install yum-utils # debuginfo-install abiword Please see http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces for more information about stack traces.
New backtrace with debug info: : gdb abiword GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.6-45.fc8rh) Copyright (C) 2006 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 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1208915328 (LWP 20764)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208915328 (LWP 20764)] FcStrBufString (buf=0xbfb2ab44, s=0x3 <Address 0x3 out of bounds>) at fcstr.c:741 741 while ((c = *s++)) Current language: auto; currently c Missing separate debuginfos, use: debuginfo-install esound.i386 keyutils.i386 (gdb) thread apply all bt Thread 1 (Thread -1208915328 (LWP 20764)): #0 FcStrBufString (buf=0xbfb2ab44, s=0x3 <Address 0x3 out of bounds>) at fcstr.c:741 #1 0x00b2ff4f in FcNameUnparseLangSet (buf=0xbfb2ab44, ls=0xb7f343b8) at fclang.c:552 #2 0x00b3322a in FcNameUnparseValueList (buf=0xbfb2ab44, v=0xb7f340f8, escape=0xb3ed93 "\\=_:,") at fcname.c:795 #3 0x00b33d0a in FcNameUnparseEscaped (pat=0xb7f34088, escape=1) at fcname.c:871 #4 0x00b33d89 in IA__FcNameUnparse (pat=0xb7f34088) at fcname.c:824 #5 0x08241684 in XAP_UnixFontManager::scavengeFonts (this=0x9dffe68) at xap_UnixFontManager.cpp:137 #6 0x082418bb in XAP_UnixFontManager (this=0x9dffe68) at xap_UnixFontManager.cpp:49 #7 0x0823c992 in XAP_UnixApp::_loadFonts (this=0x9d6d610) at xap_UnixApp.cpp:244 #8 0x0823cb02 in XAP_UnixApp::initialize (this=0x9d6d610, szKeyBindingsKey=0x83f8b5e "KeyBindings", szKeyBindingsDefaultValue=0x83efdf5 "default") at xap_UnixApp.cpp:151 #9 0x08147ea1 in AP_App::initialize (this=0x9d6d610) at ap_App.cpp:104 #10 0x081410de in AP_UnixApp::initialize (this=0x9d6d610, has_display=true) at ap_UnixApp.cpp:340 #11 0x08142820 in AP_UnixApp::main (szAppName=0x83efd87 "AbiWord", argc=1, argv=0xbfb2cf24) at ap_UnixApp.cpp:1445 #12 0x0813ea4a in main (argc=-1078809768, argv=0x0) at UnixMain.cpp:26 (gdb) q
Maybe I should update F8 to abiword 2.6.x as well, as I'm rather sure that this is fixed in 2.6.x.
*** Bug 452906 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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This is an AbiWord 2.4.x bug. This is fixed in AbiWord 2.6.x, which is available for F8.