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

[David Shochat]

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