Re: Please help - I can't start AbiWord

From: Bronislaw Baraniecki (bemak@plejada.it.pl)
Date: Sat Apr 13 2002 - 14:25:53 EDT

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    Dnia sob 13. kwiecień 2002 12:56, andy_man@popmail.com napisał:

    Hi,
    I'm really not shure if I can help you, but please say first what distrib
    are you on (RedHat?) and did you installed AW from the sources or from
    *rpm package? I guess from rpm, true?

    After I get this info will try to find a solution for you.

    Bronek

    > Hello!
    > I would appreciate some help with this.
    > I can't start AbiWord.
    > I guess it has something to do with environment or search paths,
    > but I'm not really good at this.
    > At the moment, I have uninstall and then reinstall Abi each time I want
    > to start it. After that it works till I reboot. Then it's the same
    > again.
    >
    > Andy
    >
    >
    > This is the previous message:
    > -----------------------------
    > First time I start Abi I only get the "could not add it's typefaces to
    > the X font path". That's all, I just have to press OK and everything
    > works OK from then. However I do indeed have the > load "type1" <
    > string included in the /etc/X11/XF86config-4 file. I run the I run the
    > command $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts and it
    > says something like "it's already there".
    >
    > After reboot though, when starting AbiWord I get the message: "could
    > not find any local fonts files in the font path". Then it says I should
    > start Abi through a script rather that executing the binary directly.
    > If so, where's that script file? Anyway, it says that the current font
    > path is /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/ - isn't that the correct one? And
    > when I list that dir, there are plenty of fonts there. However, this
    > time I run the command $ /usr/sbin/chkfontpath -a
    > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts it says: "chkfontpath: error opening
    > /usr/share/AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir" What does that mean? Is there
    > supoosed to be a file there called "fonts.dir"? How do I create it?
    >
    > Third time I try to open AbiWord, I get both these two messages. When I
    > have clicked OK on both of them, nothing more happens. So now I can't
    > start AbiWord. I would appreciate some guidance. I have looked in the
    > user-list and the how-to, but I can't understand what to do.
    >
    > Thanks!
    >
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