Installed Abiword plus some dependencies (on OS 11.2), now on opening a file I get the following errors:
error: empty dic file
Hash Manager Error : 2
error: empty dic file
Hash Manager Error : 2
Aborted
Following which Abiword exits.
Any thoughts as to causes?
Looks like you missed something. Dictionary files maybe??
May be starting it from terminal will give more idea about the error.
No abiword is bugged, i open it up and try to open a doc… CRASH!
abiword
error: empty dic file
Hash Manager Error : 2
error: empty dic file
Hash Manager Error : 2
Aborted
Yes i did that, and the OP seems to have done the same.
I had just installed it an hour ago, and its working fine here.
Maybe its a bug or some dependency issue.
Better to report it to bugzilla for further investigation.
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FWIW it is broken here too! If I open an Abi doc, it opens for a few seconds, crashes and saves a back-up copy!
Yes I did, amazing how on all forums people never seem to read the posts they’re replying to!
As a work-round, this seems to clear the problem,
Open Abiword with no file loaded;
On the Edit -> Preferences -> Spell checking tab, deselect ‘Check spelling as you type’ (and maybe the grammar check too);
Open a suitable .doc file (or other type, I didn’t check);
Run a manual spell check, the application should run this without closing;
Recheck the boxes in Prefs -> Spell checking;
Restest the app.
Well that seemed to work for me!
(Amazing how little testing these Linux apps get these days)
I still have this issue, I have uninstalled and reinstalled, and tried Ruby’s workaround, any hints anyone?
I open Abiword, open a document (same with .abi, .txt and .rtf) it crashes, saving a backup copy.
It does not seem to crash with in-line spell check “OFF”, and the spell check works when invoked manually in this mode, so a dictionary IS available and works. However, checking the option for in-line spell check, and the fault re-occurs…
stephen@home:~> abiword --verbose=1
(abiword:5576): libglade-WARNING **: Could not load support for `gnome’: unknown dl-error
(abiword:5576): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated
error: empty dic file
Hash Manager Error : 2
error: empty dic file
Hash Manager Error : 2
Aborted
As there was no traffic here, and the problem was still not resolved, I decided to uninstall Abiword…
But when in Yast I tried cilcking update instead, although now newer versions were showing (this is not the first time I have done this).
The problem seems now to have been solved.
