RE: [Pan-users] gdb bt for 0.12.90 "Aborted"

[John Ross Hunt]

> John Ross Hunt wrote:
> 
> >>Do you have .aspell.conf and /etc/aspell.conf files 
> configured correctly?
> >>Here's what mine look like:
> >>
> >>$ cat .aspell.conf
> >>conf aspell.conf
> >>conf-dir /etc
> >>$ cat /etc/aspell.conf
> >>lang english
> >>language-tag en_US
> >>master /usr/lib/aspell/english
> >>personal .aspell.english.pws
> >>repl .aspell.english.prepl
> >>
> >>I had nearly the same backtrace until I configure aspell, 
> then everything
> >>started working again.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> Thank you. I had neither until just before reading your response. By 
> removing my rpm versions of aspell and pspell and building both from 
> source tarballs, I was able to get more information from the gdb 
> backtrace. I could see that it was looking for 
> ~/.aspell.conf. Having no 
> idea what to put into this file, I just created an empty one. 
> Then I got 
> another backtrace looking for /usr/local/etc/aspell.conf (???). (not 
> /etc/aspell.conf). So I created an empty file there by that name too. 
> And Eureka! pan finally came up. But I guess the spelling won't work 
> with these empty config files. I will try following your 
> example (except 
> I guess I'll now have to say /usr/local/lib/aspell/english). I think 
> there definitely should be some instructions on the pan web site 
> explaining that you have to do all this in order to get 
> 0.12.90 to come 
> up at all. Come to think of it, maybe pan should check this 
> and give a 
> meaningful error message if there is no usable aspell 
> configuration. It 
> would be a bit more helpful than "Aborted". I guess I've got some 
> reading (aspell docs) to do.
> -- David

Nah, aspell is pretty self explanatory.  Just type: 'aspell dump config' and
it will show you all the available options.

-jrh