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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On 1/7/09, Richard Carter <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> clug-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >> Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >> **Please remove these lines when replying >> > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
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