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johnisevil

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From: Hamilton, ON Canada

Registered: 2003-08-07

Posts: 221

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Abiword crash

When trying to open .doc files in Abiword I get the following error then it crashes:

** (abiword:8218): CRITICAL **: gsf_input_stdio_get_type: assertion `gsf_input_stdio_type != 0' failed

(abiword:8218): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed
Aborted

Any ideas?

e_tank

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Registered: 2006-12-21

Posts: 80

Re: Abiword crash

had the same problem, so i upgraded to the latest dev version which fixed it.  downgrading to a previous version might work as well though i didn't try it.  just modify the PKGBUILD in abs to grab whatever version you want (or if you decide to downgrade, check to see if you have a previous version in /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ and use that one if you do).  below is the PKGBUILD i used

# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.2 2007/05/14 04:29:36 dan Exp $
# Maintainer: Aaron Griffin <aaron@archlinux.org>

pkgname=abiword
pkgver=2.5.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A fully-featured word processor"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL')
url="http://www.abisource.com"
depends=('libsm' 'fribidi>=0.10.7' 'enchant>=1.3.0' 'libgnomeprintui' 'wv>=1.2.4')
makedepends=('pkgconfig')
source=(http://www.abisource.com/downloads/abiword/${pkgver}/source/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz)
md5sums=('11d022458e0e090846b35ed4873c2e6e')

build() {
  export MAKEFLAGS="-j1"
  cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
  ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libxml2 --disable-gucharmap --with-sys-wv
  make || return 1
  make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
  rm -rf ${startdir}/pkg/usr/lib
  mv ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/icons ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/pixmaps
}

dhave

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From: Outside the matrix.

Registered: 2005-05-15

Posts: 1,112

Re: Abiword crash

A fair number of people have encountered this, I believe:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=35026

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