[clug-talk] Openoffice problem

[Richard Carter]

Hi Shawn,

Thanks for the tip.   I decided not to spend any more tip fiddling with Open
Office.  Koffice works fine for what I want to do.

Robin

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Shawn Grover <sgrover at open2space.com> wrote:

> 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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