[clug-talk] Openoffice problem

[Richard Carter]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your reply.   Yes, as far as I could tell, the whole of the
application was locked up.   Thanks for the tip on "kill -9" : I'll try to
remember it for next time.

Robin

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Mark Carlson <carlsonmark at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/7/09, Richard Carter <carter.r.a.l at gmail.com> wrote:
> > HI Folks,
> >
> > I just installed openoffice 2.0 on my system (debian 4.0, amd64)
> kpackage.
> > But when I open openoffice writer it wouldn't close in spite of: clicking
> > the close button on the top left corner of the window; clicking on close
> in
> > the drop-down menu; pressing alt-f4; shutting down and restarting the
> > computer.  I eventually got it closed using the "X Kill Window
> Termination
> > Tool".  I then purged openoffice.
> >
> > The take-home message is ---- don't use openoffice 2.0 with debian 4.0
> and
> > amd64.
> >
> > Robin
>
> That's too bad.  I noticed a similar but opposite problem with MS Word
> 2007.  If you double-click the menu in the top-left, the program
> crashed without saving any changes :-(.  Unfortunately it was often a
> double-whammy if you are trying to do a "save as..." and accidently
> double-click!
>
> Was the entire OpenOffice Writer application unresponsive when you
> were trying to close it?  Usually a "kill -9" will kill the
> application, unless the application is stuck in the kernel (shows up
> as in "D" state when doing a "ps -ax".
>
> -Mark C.
>
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