Re: OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Rowlands wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote: Attn: Bug-coreutils@gnu.org Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2' what causes this? What version of coreutils to you have installed? The bug here is the misleading error message from mv as /root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of /root/.openoffice.org2 Wonder if the former is a symlink to the latter, and the backup wasn't created quite right... - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGr7k7M8hyUobTrERAkZ8AJ47rhH+SxQVSonQggEjDE5Ddum/TgCfdmVs tl7JRRvye2jdeEe0LnAPpdQ= =rITt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8
Micah, as I just said in a message to Bob P and Philip, by doing a control S on the file names specifically and powering down twice using the process consecutively, OO2.2 revived this morning after an overnight with the PC off. Many Many thanks! Kenneth Micah Cowan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Philip Rowlands wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote: Attn: Bug-coreutils@gnu.org Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2' what causes this? What version of coreutils to you have installed? The bug here is the misleading error message from mv as /root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of /root/.openoffice.org2 Wonder if the former is a symlink to the latter, and the backup wasn't created quite right... - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer, and GNU Wget Project Maintainer. http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIGr7k7M8hyUobTrERAkZ8AJ47rhH+SxQVSonQggEjDE5Ddum/TgCfdmVs tl7JRRvye2jdeEe0LnAPpdQ= =rITt -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8
Hello Phil, in the night I responded to Mr. Proulx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Then, after sleeping five hours, the magic wane you guys sent me or maybe my own did its deed. Yes, this morning my OO 2.2 opened as if nothing had ever occurred. I cannot explain it except that I did a control S on each file that would not save. Then I did a full shut down twice. Nothing more. Apparently, the content in memory/cache was unloaded once the saved files released the pressure on the sys. Personally, I am not sophisticated with regard to tech work, so I have to accept the magic bit. Not really. But I still cannot explain what truly solved the riddle. If persistence had not forced me to submit a bug report, I would not have used my questioning capability to seek a solution that did in turn work. Kenneth Philip Rowlands wrote: On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote: Attn: Bug-coreutils@gnu.org Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2' what causes this? What version of coreutils to you have installed? The bug here is the misleading error message from mv as /root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of /root/.openoffice.org2 As the Ubuntu bug you referenced points out, previous versions of mv would sometimes mistakenly fail with cannot overwrite directory (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00086.html). Unfortunately, this cannot overwrite error message is disguising the real reason the mv command may be failing. Nonetheless, I'm confident that, even with a newer version of coreutils, your problems with OpenOffice freezing won't be resolved. As Bob points out in another reply the best people to ask about OpenOffice issues are OpenOffice support folks: http://support.openoffice.org/ Cheers, Phil ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8
Attn: Bug-coreutils@gnu.org Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2' what causes this? Yes, why does OO 2.2 easily freeze while saving? Once it happens, one can click Launch Run Command [terminal] enter mv ~/.openoffice.org2 ~/.openoffice.org2_backup but even that cure begins to fail. So, what is the next step that one may take to get freed of this hinderance? The following insights sent me by DrHu on the Freespire forum, is beyond my brain power. Read from DrHu who says http://forum.freespire.org/showthread.php?p=105526#post105526 as follows: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ils/+bug/71174 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/71174 mv --help Quote: mv --help Usage: mv [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST or: mv [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY or: mv [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE... Rename SOURCE to DEST, or move SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. --backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file -b like --backup but does not accept an argument -f, --force do not prompt before overwriting -i, --interactive prompt before overwrite --strip-trailing-slashes remove any trailing slashes from each SOURCE argument -S, --suffix=SUFFIX override the usual backup suffix -t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY move all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY -T, --no-target-directory treat DEST as a normal file -u, --update move only when the SOURCE file is newer than the destination file or when the destination file is missing -v, --verbose explain what is being done --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit The backup suffix is `~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values: none, off never make backups (even if --backup is given) numbered, t make numbered backups existing, nil numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise simple, never always make simple backups Report bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org. I believe this is an OO 2.2 bug that needs a general solution. Write me back if I can provide further clarification. The question surely is beyond my knowledge. Please help us. Thanks. Kenneth Koym ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
Re: OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote: Attn: Bug-coreutils@gnu.org Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2' what causes this? What version of coreutils to you have installed? The bug here is the misleading error message from mv as /root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of /root/.openoffice.org2 As the Ubuntu bug you referenced points out, previous versions of mv would sometimes mistakenly fail with cannot overwrite directory (see http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00086.html). Unfortunately, this cannot overwrite error message is disguising the real reason the mv command may be failing. Nonetheless, I'm confident that, even with a newer version of coreutils, your problems with OpenOffice freezing won't be resolved. As Bob points out in another reply the best people to ask about OpenOffice issues are OpenOffice support folks: http://support.openoffice.org/ Cheers, Phil ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
