OpenOffice crashing in Sarge

[Marc Shapiro]

I just did an 'apt-get upgrade' and openoffice.org was upgraded from 
2.0.1 to 2.0.3 and now I am unable to save my files.  When I do try to 
save I get an error message saying that OpenOffice has crashed due to an 
unknown error and that all of my files are saved.  They are saved 
without my changes, however.


I had this same problem previously, when I switched from the upstream 
version to the debian package on backports.org.  (I thought that I had 
commented bpo out of my sources.list, but apparently not -- hence, the 
upgrade.)  There had been some sort of configuration change, so the 
solution had been to remove (or rename) my .openoffice.org2 directory 
and let OOo rebuild a new one.  I just tried that, now, but the problem 
remains.


Does anyone have a fix for the problem this time?  Is this going to 
happen every time that OOo is upgraded?


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Re: OpenOffice crashing in Sarge

[Dean Allen Provins]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
 I just did an 'apt-get upgrade' and openoffice.org was upgraded from 
 2.0.1 to 2.0.3 and now I am unable to save my files.  When I do try to 
 save I get an error message saying that OpenOffice has crashed due to an 
 unknown error and that all of my files are saved.  They are saved 
 without my changes, however.
 
 I had this same problem previously, when I switched from the upstream 
 version to the debian package on backports.org.  (I thought that I had 
 commented bpo out of my sources.list, but apparently not -- hence, the 
 upgrade.)  There had been some sort of configuration change, so the 
 solution had been to remove (or rename) my .openoffice.org2 directory 
 and let OOo rebuild a new one.  I just tried that, now, but the problem 
 remains.
 
 Does anyone have a fix for the problem this time?  Is this going to 
 happen every time that OOo is upgraded?
 
 -- 
 Marc Shapiro

Marc:

You'll find the solution at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372719;.  You need a
new copy of libfreetype which as the page above says, can be obtained
from http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/libfreetype6_2.1.7-3_i386.deb;.
Get a copy, and then do dpkg -i libfreetype6_2.1.7-3_i386.deb.

You may have to restart OO - can't remember..

Dean

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