[clug-talk] Openoffice problem

[Shawn Grover]

Programs on Linux do crash occasionally (just like any other OS). 
Luckily they very rarely take the whole system with them though (unlike 
some other OSes).

I've seen OOo get into some odd states occasionally.  Usually when this 
happens, I open a terminal session if the GUI isn't frozen, or hit 
CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to a basic console (hit ALT-F7 to get back to the 
GUI).  From there I run "ps -aux" and look for anything related to OOo. 
  Sometimes I'll see more than one session of "soffice" running, which 
is usually an indicator there's trouble somewhere.  Then I run "sudo 
kill XXXX" where the XXXX is the PID of the soffice instances.  If that 
doesn't do the trick, then "sudo kill -9 XXXX" almost always does.

I have seen fewer issues since Java was better supported under 64bit 
though.  But that might just be coincidence.

Shawn

Richard Carter wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:carlsonmark at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 1/7/09, Richard Carter <carter.r.a.l at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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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