ports/89728: AbiWord 2.2.1 under FreeBSD 4.11 is stuck in a screen redraw loop when opening RTF files

Steven Sidman ssidman at maine.rr.com
Tue Nov 29 16:30:14 UTC 2005


>Number:         89728
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       AbiWord 2.2.1 under FreeBSD 4.11 is stuck in a screen redraw loop when opening RTF files
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Nov 29 16:30:09 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Steven Sidman
>Release:        4.11
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD bruckner.maine.rr.com 4.11-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 21 17:21:22 GMT 2005     root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
             
>Description:
AbiWord goes into a screen redraw loop when opening RTF files, including RTF files  that it has just generated. RTF files generated on the FreeBSD system are opened correctly using AbiWord on a Linux Fedora Core 2 system. RTF files generated by AbiWord on the Fedora Core 2 system still cause the infinite scree redraw behavior on the FreeBSD system. 

The RTF files are also correctly opened on the FreeBSD system by my trial copy of  TextMaker, a commercial program by Softmaker Software GmbH. Since it is still a trial copy, I cannot yet write RTF using TextMaker, but TextMaker opens RTF files ok.  

The AbiWord generated RTF is also correctly parsed and read by the program rtfreader.

When calling AbiWord from the command line, I sometimes find the following on exit in the terminal window:

> abiword heisen.txt

(AbiWord-2.2:98366): libgnomevfs-CRITICAL **: file gnome-vfs-utils.c: line 749 (gnome_vfs_get_uri_from_local_path): assertion `local_full_path[0] == '/'' failed

There is some evidence that very simple documents are ok.  I tried adding elements to the base document (bold, centering, page number, footnote) saving and reopening each time. All was ok. Trying to import the complete RTF document, with all elements (basically, more footnotes) causes the looping on open behavior.  There is also a possibility that my pure text file from which I started may not have had 100% pure text. I am checking that out now. The point is, AbiWord 2.2 on Fedora Core 2 works ok.      
>How-To-Repeat:
Create a graphics-free RTF document of five pages or so, with footnotes, save it as RTF, and  then see if the looping on display refresh behavior occurs when trying to re-open the document.             
>Fix:
              
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