[Hardy] Abiword crashes while opening, saving files

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: abiword

Attaching the strace.log file.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, your crash report is either missing or challenging to deal with as a ".crash" file. Please follow these instuctions to have apport report a new bug about your crash that can be dealt with by the automatic retracer.

If you are using Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop environment - launch nautilus and navigate to your /var/crash directory and double click on the crash report you wish to submit.

I'm closing this bug report since the process outlined above will automatically open a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently. Thanks in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

Reopening the bug.
What happens if Shirish doesn't have apport installed?

Please make sure that an other bug has really been reported before closing this one.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

I had abiword installed not abiword-gnome, perhaps that might have been why it was doing crashing like that? Although should It do like that?

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Another possibility is that it might be also Bug #158432 as I do have abiword-plugins installed also. And even there the crash detector/apport plays spoilsport although that is on Gutsy while this is on Hardy.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Just discovered it might be due to this perhaps? http://live.gnome.org/GioToDo

Could this be the cause of the crash?

[Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)]

I've been able to reproduce the bug.

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Another partial culprit might be the libgio library. http://live.gnome.org/GioToDo Lemme know what u guys think?

[Shirish Agarwal (shirishag75)]

Sorry for the duplicate above. Just one more thing, found out that I haven't installed libgio-bin, and its marked as an optional library

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude search libgio
p libgio-bin - GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library (binaries)
p libgio-bin-dbgsym - debug symbols for package libgio-bin
p libgio-dev - GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library (development file
p libgio-fam - GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library (fam module)
p libgio0 - GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library (library)
p libgio0-dbgsym - debug symbols for package libgio0
shirish@Mugglewille:~$ aptitude show libgio-bin
Package: libgio-bin
New: yes
State: not installed
Version: 0.1.2-0ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Maintainer: Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 139k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libgio0 (>= 0.1.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libselinux1 (>= 2.0.15)
Description: GLib Input, Output and Streaming Library (binaries)
 GIO is the input, output and streaming API of glib. It on the one hand provides a set of various streaming
 classes to access data from different sources in a convenient way and on the other hand it provides a high level
 file system abstraction to access file and directories not only local but also on the network. For the latter
 you need to install gvfs.

 This is a temporary packages until gio gets merged into glib.

I have no idea but perhaps somebody else may be able to guide us the same.

[Rylie Pavlik (abiryan)]

I am guessing that this will probably be fixed when AbiWord 2.6 gets uploaded, as I have used it successfully. Please test with the packages linked here and update this bug (and that one) if these packages fix the problem:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/202174

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package abiword - 2.6.6-0ubuntu1

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abiword (2.6.6-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    (LP: #318444, #300538, #297137, #117064, #215845,
         #191194)
  * debian/patches:
    - drop 03_nosmoothscroll_default, not needed anymore.
    - drop 05_create_and_edit_styles_crash.dpatch and
      05_print_preview_crasher, integrated upstream.
    - update the other patches for the new release.
    - update 00list.
  * debian/rules, debian/abiword.links, misc/,
    debian/abiword.manpages: remove the stuff about abw2html.pl,
    as it does not exist anymore.
  * debian/rules: the documentation was not symlinked to the correct
    place. Will be forwarded to Debian (LP: #304046, #74623)
  * debian/patches:
    - add 01_fix_select_revision.dpatch from upstream svn. (LP: #319067)
    - 00list: updated.

 -- Jerome Guelfucci <email address hidden> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:45:15 +0100