Bug 96759 – When I try to run kword 1.4 it crashes immediatly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Christopher Cimiluca 2005-06-22 01:06:34 UTC]

Kword crashes without creating a window.  If I run it from a terminal the   
words "Alarm clock" are printed before I get the prompt back. I have deleted 
kwordrc without effect 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge kword 
2. run kword 
3.  
  
Actual Results:  
user@host>~/$kword 
Alarm clock 
 

Expected Results:  
Produced a window for me to type in  

kspread and kexi work fine.  I don't believe that I have any old libraries  
laying around.  My previous kword (previously unmerged) was installed without 
the rest of koffice.

[Comment 1 Thomas Stein 2005-06-23 00:45:08 UTC]

Exactly the same problem here.  
  
emerge info:  
  
thomas@commander ~ $ emerge info  
Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2004.2/gcc34, gcc-3.4.4,  
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.12 i686)  
=================================================================  
System uname: 2.6.12 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz  
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12  
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5  
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.1-r2  
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6  
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5  
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16  
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18  
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11  
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"  
AUTOCLEAN="yes"  
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"  
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"  
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"  
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/bind /var/qmail/control"  
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/mail/dspam /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"  
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"  
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"  
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"  
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org  
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"  
LANG="en_US"  
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"  
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"  
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"  
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"  
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"  
USE="x86 X aalib alsa apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr  
crypt cups curl eds emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran  
gd gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java jpeg  
junit kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses  
nls ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime  
readline samba sdl slang spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype  
truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU  
kernel_linux elibc_glibc"  
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS  
 
regards 
thomas 

[Comment 2 Thomas Stein 2005-06-23 01:34:48 UTC]

uh, problem solved. strace gave me:  
  
read(15, "# Generated with Aspell Dicts \"p"..., 4096) = 113  
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---  
rt_sigaction(SIGALRM, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0  
alarm(3)                                = 0  
  
So i emerged aspell-0.60.2. The error occurred with aspell-0.50.5-r4.  
  
best regards  
thomas  
  

[Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-06-23 06:37:45 UTC]

Does the same holds for you, Christopher? 
 
It would be nice to see if there's a particular file in /usr/share/aspell/ 
that causes the crash. 
 

[Comment 4 Christopher Cimiluca 2005-06-23 20:11:45 UTC]

I had the exact same problem with the exact same version of ASPELL and   
upgrading solved it. I unmerged kword last night so I'm afraid I can't help you  
track doen the offending aspell file.  
  
Thanks for your help.     
  
I am marking this fixed.  If I am premature, please unmark it.