Balsa Crashing when being launched.

[Vikas Mishra <vikasm india ti com>]

Hi Folks,
I was trying to get balsa to run on my Solaris 2.7 machine and am facing
some problems. I am using Gnome version 1.4 and using version 1.2.9 of
gtk/glib libraries. I was sucessfull in building balsa but have not been
able to run it so far.

I am using .12.2 version of the Pspell libraries and the libtool which came
with pspell.

Following is the problem that I am seeing. When I try to start balsa by
typing balsa, this is what I see.

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[dspsparc133 3 :~/balsa/bin]# ./balsa 

GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
Gdk-ERROR **: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
  serial 4122 error_code 8 request_code 62 minor_code 0
[dspsparc133 4 :~/balsa/bin]# 
---End-Screen-Shot---

I do not have any environment variables set for pointing it to help file as
I assumed that --prefix would have taken care of that. Do I need to do that
as well ? Anyway I searched a bit on google on debugging GDK errors and
saw a message which asked to take a backtrace. I am not a software engineer
so I do not understand anything of what is happening here. But my guess is 
that it is aborting because it does not find the help file. Anyway here is 
the gdb backtrace. I will really appreciate it if someone can take a look 
at this and help me in getting this to run.

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[dspsparc133 208 :/user/vikasm/balsa/bin]# gdb ./balsa
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This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.6"...
(gdb) run --g-fatal-warnings
Starting program: /user/vikasm/balsa/bin/./balsa --g-fatal-warnings
Sourcing Global .cshrc.......
Done
[New LWP 1]
[New LWP 2]
[New LWP 3]
[New LWP 4]

GnomeUI-WARNING **: Could not open help topics file NULL
aborting...

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xff129d18 in __sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
(gdb) backtrace
#0  0xff129d18 in __sigprocmask () from /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
#1  0xff11f35c in _resetsig () from /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
#2  0xff11eb18 in _sigon () from /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
#3  0xff1218ec in _thrp_kill () from /usr/lib/libthread.so.1
#4  0xfe2b95d8 in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.1
#5  0xfe37964c in g_logv () from /usr/local/apdc/Gnome1.4/lib//libglib-1.2.so.0
#6  0xfe3796e4 in g_log () from /usr/local/apdc/Gnome1.4/lib//libglib-1.2.so.0
#7  0xfe82ee98 in create_help_entries (menu_shell=0x12a950, uiinfo=0xc9bd8, pos=2) at gnome-app-helper.c:1095
#8  0xfe82f7b8 in gnome_app_fill_menu_custom (menu_shell=0x12a950, uiinfo=0xc9bd8, uibdata=0xffbedf70, accel_group=0x111980, 
    uline_accels=1, pos=2) at gnome-app-helper.c:1305
#9  0xfe82f8c0 in gnome_app_fill_menu_custom (menu_shell=0x1129e0, uiinfo=0xc9d38, uibdata=0xffbedf70, accel_group=0x111980, 
    uline_accels=1, pos=6) at gnome-app-helper.c:1341
#10 0xfe8301a0 in gnome_app_create_menus_custom (app=0x110578, uiinfo=0xc9c30, uibdata=0xffbedf70) at gnome-app-helper.c:1516
#11 0xfe82fe3c in gnome_app_create_menus_with_data (app=0x110578, uiinfo=0xc9c30, user_data=0x110578) at gnome-app-helper.c:1456
#12 0x3a3a0 in balsa_window_new () at main-window.c:666
#13 0x3fe34 in main (argc=2, argv=0xffbee104) at main.c:320
(gdb) 
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Regards,
Vikas