Abiword wan't start (pango error?)

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Jul 27 16:25:43 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 10:10 +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> Hi Joe
> 
> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 11:36 +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> >> Hi Joe
> >>
> >> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2009-07-13 at 09:56 +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote:
> >>>> Hello
> >>>>
> >>>> I can't use abiword. When i try to start abiword (2.6.8_1) i get this
> >>>> error message:
> >>>>
> >>>> thomas at bert:~> abiword
> >>>>
> >>>> (process:53896): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >>>>
> >>>> (process:53896): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.
> >>>> 	Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> >>>>
> >>>> (abiword:53896): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
> >>> What locale are you using?
> >>>
> >>>> (abiword:53896): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output.
> >>>> shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Bitstream Vera Sans 11', text=''
> >>> Check your settings, and make sure you have the appropriate fonts
> >>> installed.  Version 2.6.8_1 added a dependency on deja-vu fonts.  The
> >>> default font is now DejaVu Sans which you should try to see if it looks
> >>> better.
> >>
> >> deja-vu fonts are installed. If i set setenv LC_ALL de_CH.ISO8859-15 in
> >> the console then it works form the shell.
> >>
> >> My gnome environment should be set to english (US) keyboard and Swiss
> >> German language. I can set this in gdm. I don't know how i can check
> >> this settings after gnome is booted.
> >>
> >> env doens't show me any LANG Variables.
> > 
> > It should.  I have my locale set from GDM to be US English, and my
> > environment looks like:
> > 
> > GDM_LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > 
> > What does your environment look like?
> 
> LANG=de_CH.utf8
> GDM_LANG=de_CH.utf8

Your locale needs to be de_CH.UTF-8.  What you have now is not valid.
I'm not sure how you set this, but it needs to be changed.

Joe

> 
> My keyboard setting is us english. I know this because i use a keyboard
> with us layout.
> 
> Looks like this doesn't work.
> 
> all:
> ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/var/tmp/orbit-thomas
> WINDOWID=18874410
> DISPLAY=:0.0
> GNOME_KEYRING_PID=4307
> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/var/tmp/keyring-5Ddmjq/socket
> LOGNAME=thomas
> PWD=/home/thomas
> HOME=/home/thomas
> BLOCKSIZE=K
> LANG=de_CH.utf8
> GTK_RC_FILES=/usr/local/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/thomas/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/thomas/bin
> XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-thomas-8igMUs/database
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/var/tmp/keyring-5Ddmjq/socket.ssh
> SHELL=/bin/csh
> TERM=xterm
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/var/tmp/dbus-FcFn2NlYx9,guid=79149802cc5063f436b09ea04a6d5eaa
> COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
> GPG_AGENT_INFO=/var/tmp/seahorse-qkoA9u/S.gpg-agent:4334:1
> USER=thomas
> DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/bert.mlan.solnet.ch:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4314
> GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated
> ENV=/home/thomas/.shrc
> XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=12bfcd529d4ef6dd647cc3b14a062d13-1248681642.216432-1736425308
> PAGER=more
> GDM_LANG=de_CH.utf8
> USERNAME=thomas
> GDMSESSION=gnome
> EDITOR=vi
> HOSTTYPE=FreeBSD
> VENDOR=intel
> OSTYPE=FreeBSD
> MACHTYPE=i386
> SHLVL=1
> GROUP=thomas
> HOST=<privat>
> REMOTEHOST=
> CLICOLOR=
> 
> > 
> > Joe
> > 
> >> Regards,
> >> Thomas vogt
> >>
> 
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