On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 06:27:18PM +0100, Alexander Clouter wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2001, Martin Skøtt wrote: > > > > This might be a bit offtopic, but my IBM T22 laptop is the only machine I > > have > > had this problem with :-) > > My machine simplu hangs the first time I press a button in the StarOffice > > 5.2 > > installation wizard. I have tried several different editions of SO 5.2, both > > downloaded from sun.com and from a Sun CD and all of them crash. Crashing in > > the way that the only thing I can do to get in contact with the machine > > again > > is to switvh it off and on again. > > I have tried the installation on a couple of other machines and it works > > fine > > there. The only difference between the crashing and the working machines is > > that the crashing machine is a IBM T22 laptop using XFS. > > > > My machine is a IBM T22 (2647-B8G) runnig Debian testing with kernel 2.4.5. > > > > Has anyone else experienced this and have you got a solution to the problem? > > > firstly kernel 2.4.5 has some nasty VM bugs, I would quickly upgrade to > 2.4.9 (you can get the latest XFS patches too :) You will notice this bug > when either mozilla/staroffice is loaded.....unless you have actually set > your swap space to 2xRAM (or even 2.5xRAM).
I know, but upgrading to something newer than 2.4.5 would mean going to the CVS version of XFS which is less tested than the XFS 1.0.1 patch for 2.4.5. I am aware of the problems (and have set my swap accordingly) that have been fixed and it was quite reluctantly that I installed 2.4.5. > I don't know how to fix the above problem however I would recommend you go > to www.openoffice.org and look at the open source version of staroffice. > The components have been broken up so you don't waste loads of memory, it > also becomes faster and more reliable. I have tried and it stil crashes. > Also one thing to note is that 5.2 was dog slow when I used it on my > laptop in comparison to 5.1, just my thoughts :) Hmmm, I just got installed (due to another response to this list) and seems slow as always. The last time I used 5.1 was on a 133MhZ pentium and that was really slow :-) -- Martin Skøtt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
