AbiWord autostarting in 16.04

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> But now, when I log in, Abiword is started automatically. I don't know
> why. It's not in the list of startup apps, including the hidden ones.
>
> I don't actually use it much. LibreOffice is a bit slow on this 8YO
> machine, so I run MS Word 97 under WINE, which is very quick indeed.
>
> Any way to stop this short of uninstalling AbiWord? Or any clues on
> how to trace it?
>

It's a bug that started around the time of Vivid but hasn't been fixed yet.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword/+bug/1432271

A workaround is to delete OR rename OR chmod a-rwx this file:

/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.freedesktop.Telepathy.Client.AbiCollab.service


According to the recently-closed Abiword bug, the bug is due to a Debian
packaging issue.

Here's the Debian bug:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=781764

As you can see, it was fixed a few days ago, but it's not likely to get
into Xenial unless someone gets motivated to backport the fix in Ubuntu and
file a Stable Release Update (SRU).
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