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

Dear Bernhard, great work! I have learnt something from your debugging. So, the codeline in question is context->glGetIntegerv (GL_NUM_EXTENSIONS, &num_extensions); I have found the following comment in the web

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

Hello Bernhard, in the meantime, I have managed to upgrade the NVIDIA driver to the stretch-backports version. Although apt-get issued some warnings, the process finished with a flawless system with GLX provided by the NVIDIA driver. AbiWord now works without start-up crash and your GDB does

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

Package: abiword Version: 3.0.2-2+deb9u2 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, on startup, my freshly installed abiword crashes with a GLib-ERROR: (abiword:4517): GLib-ERROR **: /build/glib2.0-YYXhFA/glib2.0-2.50.3/./glib/gmem.c:100: failed to allocate 4276615588 bytes Trace/breakpoin