Bug 32401 – app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5-r1 breaks evolution

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Benjamin Ritcey 2003-10-31 09:56:18 UTC]

app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5-r1 broke evolution (1.4.5) so that anytime I attempted to reply to a message, evolution would crash.  Evolution would also crash when attempting to open the settings page.

Running evolution in gdb pointed me towards a problem with spelling (it mentioned /usr/lib/aspell when it crashed).  Checking emerge.log shows one of the last things updated was app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5-r1;  falling back to app-text/gnome-spell-1.0.5 fixed the problem

The ChangeLog for gnome-spell lists the following for the -r1 release:

26 Oct 2003; foser <[e-mail]> gnome-spell-1.0.5-r1.ebuild :
  Add patch to use enchant as backend

That seems like a pretty big change for a -r ebuild update.

[Comment 1 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) 2003-11-02 05:59:48 UTC]

hrmm, it doesn't crash for me, but spelling doesn't seem to be enabled anymore
after 1.0.5-r1

do you have a backtrace of the crash from gdb?

[Comment 2 Benjamin Ritcey 2003-11-02 08:33:11 UTC]

sorry, no backtrace - evolution was stripped.  I just got that one message
saying there was an error trying to open /usr/lib/aspell (which I stupidly
didn't save).  This was my main work machine, so I can't easily reproduce
w/o giving up Evolution for awhile;  I'll see if I have some downtime where
I can reproduce.

Oddly, my home machine is fine with -r1;  perhaps it was an enchant problem
and not directly a gnome-spell problem? (1.0.0 at work, 1.1.1 at home). 
The gnome-spell ebuild just wants >= 1.0 for enchant.  Again, time allowing,
I'll see if I can reproduce.

[Comment 3 foser (RETIRED) 2003-11-03 08:57:19 UTC]

if you used pre 1.0 versions of enchant you might have run into libtool problems
later on, a recompile should fix that.

If you can't reproduce it anymore, i'm gonna close this one.

[Comment 4 foser (RETIRED) 2003-11-20 08:01:00 UTC]

closing, no reply