Thanks for your suggestion. But, I don't think it is that way. Firstly, I do not have any OpenOffice instances running/open initially. Secondly, If we do have an instance of OpenOffice running then it is designed so as to use that as a server process thus speeding up the loading of any other OpenOffice component. So, If you have OpenOffice Math open, and you try to open OpenOffice Writer...then it would just load faster rather than just trying to open OpenOffice Writer on it's own.
Thanks again,
--Sandeep
Jan Wilson wrote:
* Sandeep Khanna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [021018 14:37]:My laptop has Mandrake 9 installed. Whenever I start OpenOffice, the first time it inevitably closes down after a short glimpse of it. But, after persistently trying it 3-4 times it finally shows up !! Also, If I completely delete the ~/.openoffice directory then it starts just fine even the first time !!!Any hints, helps, suggestions?I teach classes using OpenOffice.org every day, and this happens every once in a while. What it usually means is there is already a process running which you have lost, and it won't allow you to start a new one. Open a terminal and type: ps -u $USER | grep soffice You should see something like this: 5642 ? 00:00:28 soffice.bin 5666 ? 00:00:00 soffice.bin 5667 ? 00:00:00 soffice.bin 5668 ? 00:00:00 soffice.bin 5684 ? 00:00:00 soffice.bin 5685 ? 00:00:00 soffice.bin Try killing the first one, like this: kill 5642 That should kill the running process, and then you can start OpenOffice as usual. It might be worth writing a script to do this, with a name like killoffice.
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