Abiword in Trisquel Mini 8.0 is broken

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Onsemeliot
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I recently installed Trisquel 8.0 mini on my old IBM ThinkPad T40. And everything works good so far. Only the Abiword version available in the repository breaks as soon as I want to delete any character when I type in any text. I made all updates and reinstalled Abiword and the same thing happens again. Can you confirm the problem? And where should I file a bug report for this?

chaosmonk

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> Only the Abiword version available in the repository breaks as soon as
> I want to delete any character when I type in any text.

Can you be a little more specific about how it "breaks"? Does it just
crash, or does it become glitchy in some other way?

To troubleshoot, can you please open a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+T, type
"abiword", and press Enter? This will launch Abiword. While Abiword is
running, reproduce the issue by deleting a character, and then look back
at the terminal and see if any error messages appeared. If so, please
copy/paste the error message here.

> And where should I file a bug report for this?

Our bug tracker is here.[1] However, I generally recommend going to the
forum first. The more specific you can be in your bug report the more
likely it is to be addressed, so it is good to get help troubleshooting
first, and since more people check the forums than the bug tracker you
will get more/quicker responses here.

[1] https://trisquel.info/en/project/issues

Onsemeliot
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Iscritto: 09/09/2011

Tahnk you for your answer chaosmonk.

Abiword just freezes. And it doesn't give any feedback. Even the commend line doesn't provide any additional feedback when this happens since the output I quote is given before the error happens when I start typing:

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$ abiword

** (abiword:1622): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
Aborted

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(For an unknown reason the editor in this forum dosn't show up in Midori on Trisquel Mini either. It looks like Javascript would be blocked. But it doesn't seem to be.)

chaosmonk

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> Even the commend line doesn't provide any additional
> feedback when this happens since the output I quote is
> given before the error happens when I start typing:
>
> [quote]$ abiword
>
> ** (abiword:1622): WARNING **: Error retrieving
> accessibility bus address:
> org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
> Aborted
> [/quote]

I think that this warning is probably harmless and unrelated to the
problem you are experiencing. Try running

$ abiword --verbose=2

and press delete to make it freeze again and see if anything more
helpful is printed to the terminal.

Onsemeliot
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Iscritto: 09/09/2011

The verbose form didn't change a thing:

> $ abiword --verbose=2
>
> ** (abiword:1646): WARNING **: Error retrieving accessibility bus address: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name
> org.a11y.Bus was not provided by any .service files
> Aborted

But I might have found the root of the problem: As long as I am typing without errors everything is fine. But as soon as I ignore any misspelled word and start typing the next anyway then I can't delete any letter and the program freezes. Therefore, I disabled the on the fly spell check and the problem did actually disappear.

But since Abiword didn't work initially, I installed Libre Office instead. I didn't want to that since I would prefer the theoretically much lighter Abiword but on this old system Libre Office runs much smoother and faster. Abiword ist very laggy and Libre Office shows the text as I am typing when Abiword is always behind if I don't stop after some characters and wait until they appear on screen.

chaosmonk

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> But I might have found the root of the problem: As long as I am typing
> without errors everything is fine. But as soon as I ignore any misspelled
> word and start typing the next anyway then I can't delete any letter and
> program freezes. Therefore, I disabled the on the fly spell check and the
> problem disappeared.

Sounds like the bug lies in the spell check feature then. I can't find
any known issues regarding spell check and freezing. If you're happy
with LibreOffice then it sounds like everything's good, but if another
user runs into this issue we'll know where to start looking.

Onsemeliot
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>If you're happy with LibreOffice then it sounds like everything's good

Well, as said earlier: in theory I would prefer Abiword because I love its much less cluttered user interface but if it isn't working properly for me I might stick with Libre Office Writer for the time being. I don't use such word processing software that much but when I want to use it then the spell checking is one of the main reasons.

Thank you for helping me to find my way, chaosmonk.