Re: Gnumeric crashes - what is going on ?

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow taliesin ca>]

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 15:50, Mateusz Łoskot wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writting for the first time on this group.
> I'm using GNU/Linux (Slackware 9.0) with last version
> of dropline-gnome (Slackware's Gnome edition).
> Since couple days, when I try to run Gnumeric I got
> a very strange error and Gnumeric crashes on startup.
> The only message I got is:
>
> ######################################
> gekon gekon:$ gnumeric
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> Atk Accessibilty bridge initialized
>  
> ** ERROR **: error condition on server fd is 0
> aborting...
> Bonobo accessibility support initialized
> GTK Accessibility Module initialized
> Atk Accessibilty bridge initialized
> ######################################
>
> It does not say a lot for me.
> I tried to find some information about my problem.
> and I can not find any useful information about myu problem on the
> Gnumerig mailing list.
> But I've found that someone had similar problems (in September 2003).
> This error is described on the Gnome bugzilla:
>
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121675
>
> Descriptions on bugzilla (above) say that there could be some problems with
> ATK, someone says that after he disables ATK Gnumeric didn't crash.
>
> I tried to uninstall Gnumeric which comes with dropline-gnome, and
> compile it myself. Compilation went fine, but Gnumeric crashes also 
> after that.
>
> Please, could someone tell me what exactly causes this problem ?
> How to solve it ?
>
> There is the listing of all packages installed on my Slackware 9.0
>
> http://dendro.sggw.waw.pl/~mloskot/packages.txt

The problem lies with atk. You can either disable it (if you do not
require "accessibility support")

Installing a newer version of atk and recompiling gnumeric then may also
help (but we haven't really figured out which version you would need.)

Andreas
-- 
Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow
Dept. of Mathematical & Computing Sciences
Concordia University College of Alberta