Hi Dean,
Could it be that your document is set to “read-only?” (Read-only
documents can only be “saved as.”)
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Pagarbiai / Sincerely,
📧 Aivaras Stepukonis <mailto:[email protected]>
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2025-11-03 13:23, Dean Webber rašė:
Hey everyone,
I have upgraded my system, installed OpenOffice 4.1.15 and getting "Error saving the
document" "General Error", when saving documents using Writer.
Basically, when I save a document for the first time it throws this error, but not on subsequent
saves (unless I 'Save As' another file name). Attempting to open files results in "General
Error", Upon selecting okay, the file opens. Attempting to open files created with my previous
system, also results in "General Error".
Using "Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.15_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_en-GB" which is
"AOO4115m2(Build:9813) - Rev. 5f13fa0070 2023-11-29 07:03 - Linux x86_64"
System is "Debian 6.12.48-1 (2025-09-20) x86_64 GNU/Linux"
Install was completed using same method outlined
inhttps://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Debian_Installation
Troubleshooting I tried was installing a JRE (as using terminal to run soffice showed
"javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!"), but made no difference.
I also checked that the system included glibc2. It seems to have libc(2.41), which is
what the glibc file from debian looks to contain. I also checked the sha512 sum and was
good.
Unsure if related, but the application takes longer to load than my previous
system (same computer).
Thought to send this out to you guys, incase there is something to it.
Keep up the good work,
Dean
