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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Feb 7 19:00:12 -0800 2005 ------- I have had many problems relating to "Soffice (Not responding)" for a long time and having just come across this issue report today, I thought I should add my experiences. I am currently running Win98SE and OOo 1.1.2. The fault is unfortunately not very reproducible but if I use OOo Draw a couple of times during a day, I will almost certainly have problems with other programs (eg Eudora) not firing up (until I ctrl-alt-del and get rid of "Soffice [Not responding]" item in the task list), or the system not shutting down. Having seen these issue reports, I thought I would experiment to see if I can get the fault to appear reliably and as a result found something which seems to be readily reproduced and is almost certainly closely related. After rebooting my system from scratch and entering the Windows network logon password, If I press Ctrl-Alt-Del, I can see Soffice (quickstarter) in the list of tasks, but if I try to "End Task" it says "This task is not responding. It may be busy ... etc". This seems to be a prime cause of many associated problems, and is certainly easy to reproduce as it is in this state immediately after every startup with no other action required! An obvous bug that I could reproduce reliably directly from restart (about 20 times but now I can't) goes as follows : 1) Reboot my sytem, 2) Enter networking password, 3) Start Windows Explorer (from start menu), 4) Open a folder, and two subfolders, 5) Double-click on a "file.sxd" to fire up openoffice, (Strangely OOo comes up in a background window (behind Windows Explorer) rather than in foreground). 6) Click on the close button in the top right hand corner (without bringing it to the foreground). 7) Double-click on the same "file.sxd" to fire it up again, This time it starts to come up in a foreground window (in front of Windows Explorer) but stops short of opening the file. The system has not locked up, but OOo has definitely fallen asleep and anything which depends on it being awake (such as firing up an application such as Eudora or shutting down the system) will presumably hang when you try. Up to this point the symptoms occured quite reliably, but after this point the results differed depending I guess on time delays etc. If I wait a little while and then press Ctrl-Alt-Del I can see in the task list "file.sxe - OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 [Not responding]" (If I don't wait so long the [Not responding] note is not yet there). If I now escape out of this little task display listing OOo will generally wake-up, open the file and proceed as normal! However sometimes if I scroll up and down the task list in the display window, and then escape, it will not wake-up. It will wake-up if I escape a few more times - particularly if I don't do any scrolling! I have noticed that even if I exit Quickstarter (by right-clicking on the little icon at the right hand end of the task bar and choosing exit), it will be restarted when I invoke and exit from OOo draw. This does not seem like correct operation either. Also I have often seen two instances of Quickstarter in the task list (and if I remember rightly even two little double seagull icons at the right hand end of the task bar). I hope these symptoms might aid the solving of this problem. For myself this bug has been the main ongoing problem that I have had with OOo. I have upgraded to later versions in the hope that it would dissapear, and I have been hoping that a later operating system (I still run Win98SE) would solve the problem. However from other postings here it looks like I should not hold out any hope of that! --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
