Bug#909015: Fwd: abiword: Crashes on startup with GLib-ERROR (Bug #909015)

[Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org>]

Forwarding information to the bug report.


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Betreff: Re: abiword: Crashes on startup with GLib-ERROR (Bug #909015)
Datum: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:00:08 +0200
Von: Joachim H. Kaiser <jhkaiser@web.de>
An: Bernhard Übelacker <bernhardu@mailbox.org>

Hallo Bernhard,

supplementing my last email, I could successfully start and use AbiWord now:

I switched the system GLX provider from NIVIDIA to Mesa and rebooted the system.  Then, AbiWord started.  
The only error message reported at start-up was

(abiword:3531): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_render_background: assertion 'GTK_IS_STYLE_CONTEXT (context)' failed

However, I could load a document without any further error message.  
At the next start-up this error message was not repeated.

Obviously, AbiWord needs a working GLX environment -- like the Gnome Shell, which however incorporates Gallium3D LLVMpipe to allow it to run without a proper 3D hardware driver loaded.  
In my case, I guess, if AbiWord does not find GLX, it tries to do without it but needs a lot of memory to accomplish this.

Again, many thanks for your efforts.

Have a nice day -- Joachim