error: duplicate REP tables used

[Sheldon Hearn]

Affix support appears to be broken for the en_ZA locale.

The realtime spell-checking functionality of OpenOffice, Firefox, Pidgin, X-Chat and Evolution doesn't recognize affixes. So "participant" is recognized, but "participants" is not, for example.

In .xsession-errors, I see this:

error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo/en_ZA.aff
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff

I have LANG="en_ZA.UTF-8" set in /etc/default/locale.

Here are the package versions that I think are pertinent:

aspell 0.60.6-1
aspell-en 6.0-0-5.1
gnome-spell 1.0.8-0ubuntu1
hunspell-en-us 20070829-2ubuntu1
libaspell15 0.60.6-1
libgtkspell0 2.0.13-1
libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.6-1ubuntu1
myspell-en-au 2.1-3.1
myspell-en-gb 1:2.4.0-2ubuntu4
myspell-en-za 1:2.4.0-2ubuntu4
dictionaries-common 0.98.9ubuntu1
language-pack-en 1:8.10+20081107
language-pack-en-base 1:8.10+20081107
language-pack-gnome-en 1:8.10+20081107
language-pack-gnome-en-base 1:8.10+20081107
language-selector 0.3.17
language-selector-common 0.3.17
language-support-en 1:8.10+20080703
language-support-translations-en 1:8.10+20080703
language-support-writing-en 1:8.10+20080904

[Hannes Coetzee (skuilplek)]

Similar problem when running pidgin (pidgin does not run at all).

scorpking@scorpking-desktop:~$ pidgin
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff
Segmentation fault

scorpking@scorpking-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail
[15712.907921] pidgin[18339]: segfault at a8 ip b65960fb sp bff5ba80 error 4 in libpurplemxit.so[b6587000+13000]
[18373.525481] pidgin[31986]: segfault at a8 ip b66f70fb sp bfabc010 error 4 in libpurplemxit.so[b66e8000+13000]
[18423.536618] pidgin[32273]: segfault at a8 ip b67320fb sp bfef8690 error 4 in libpurplemxit.so[b6723000+13000]

[Vik (vik-catalyst)]

Confirmed still happening in xchat on current x86 Jaunty install.

Vik :v)

[yasuo (yasuo-cloaked)]

I had the same issue with pidgin:

% pidgin
error: duplicate REP tables used
Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff
zsh: segmentation fault pidgin

But in my case it was related to the facebook plugin:

% dmesg | tail
[ 309.408258] pidgin[5288]: segfault at 28 ip 00007f9c8090c952 sp 00007fffa490a390 error 4 in libfacebook.so[7f9c80908000+c000]

Removing the pidgin-facebookchat package resolved my problem for the moment.

[Steve Kroon (kroon)]

I get the same error when running OpenOffice. Here is my locale information:

skroon@mania:~$ locale
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_GB.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

[Steve Kroon (kroon)]

So, any suggestions on how to solve this problem? Any further information we can send you?

[Lloyd (lloyd-reijers)]

I can confirm this problem exists on Karmic using Openoffice.

"Failure loading aff file /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff" is written to the console after launching oowrite from the console.
Simple words such as

I made the error go away (note, I don't consider myself an expert in the affix file format - and thus don't know which south african grammar + spelling rules will be violated ), by copying the en_GB.aff file over the en_ZA.aff file

sudo cp /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_GB.aff /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff

it seems that there's a parse error on the existing en_ZA.aff file (and indeed may have something to do with OP's duplicate REP table errors).

[Lloyd (lloyd-reijers)]

While my previous solution works, I was unhappy that it seemed to kludgy.

A little research revealed someone else, who solved it properly:
http://ultrahigh.org/2009/07/16/broken-en_za-locale-in-ubuntu-jaunty/

__QUOTE__

The fix is to download the myspell en_ZA files from here http://downloads.translate.org.za/spellchecker/

Backup the original files
cd /usr/share/myspell/dicts/

sudo mv en_ZA.aff en_ZA.aff.bak

Unzip the file from translate.org.za, and copy it to /usr/share/myspell/dicts/en_ZA.aff, and do the same for en_ZA.dic

That should give you a working spellchecker in OpenOffice.org

__UNQUOTE__

[Steve Kroon (kroon)]

Thanks. I have, since upgrading to Karmic, overwritten the en_ZA affix file with the en_GB copy. To me, both solutions are cludgy. What should happen is that an update should be issued which does this (and anything else that needs to be done at the same time) for the user.

This is to give the user peace of mind that the problem has been fixed correctly. [For example, if you hadn't posted about update en_ZA.dic, I wouldn't have known that also needs updating.]

[Sheldon Hearn (sheldonh)]

On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 11:07 +0000, Steve Kroon wrote:
> Thanks. I have, since upgrading to Karmic, overwritten the en_ZA
> affix file with the en_GB copy. To me, both solutions are cludgy.

It's not just kludgy; the kludge will be undone by the next upgrade or
reinstall of the package that installs the file.

Ciao,
Sheldon.