Hi, Well, installing lpr caused the error messages to go away, and openoffice starts properly. Unfortunately now I can't reproduce the crash, even after purging lpr and deleting ~/.openoffice ~/.sversionrc and ~/.user60.rdb. I will follow up if it happens again.
Thanks, On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Chris Halls wrote: > Thanks for your report. You've actually probably hit two separate problems > here: > > 1. Spurious (but harmless) output if no printing front end is installed. > > 2. A crash caused by something else. > > You can confirm (1) by temporarily installing some printing client, although > there is no need unless you want to confirm for yourself. > > (2) is a little harder to solve. You may like to check that a truetype font > is not causing the crash by temporarily removing all truetype fonts from > your X font path. Something like this should do: > > xset fp /usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled > > (but you should have a look at the fonts you have in /X11/XFConfig-4 and > choose something sensible). > > Also, if you have installed a translated language (i.e. > openoffice.org-l10n-en is not installed), try installing > openoffice.org-l10n-en in addition to the language you have - it seems that > sometimes OOo will crash if -en is not installed. > > If you are still no further, please will you get a crash dump using gdb > (you may need to apt-get install gdb). Do the following: > > $ SAL_DEBUG=gdb openoffice > (gdb) run > [openoffice starts and crashes] > (gdb) where > > ...and post the output here. > > Thanks, > Chris > -- Kevin McCarty Physics Department [EMAIL PROTECTED] Princeton University www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty Princeton, NJ 08544
