Hello All, I can add to the comment RE wifi/disable test. My wifi is mostly disabled (laptop with ethernet connection) and have experienced crashes during this time.
Cheers B On 2 September 2010 01:57, Phil Ayres <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe I have another data point, and not just a "me too"... > > I have been struggling with OpenOffice crashes for a long time now on > one PC running 10.04 (my little netbook on Ubuntu 9.10 is fine). I've > tried both Ubuntu and vanilla version of OOo with the same effect - > swapping applications back to OOo after a length of time causes the > crash. > > Yesterday I removed a slow Intel 5100 wifi card from my PC (this was an > ill advised add-on). I had been struggling with the iwlagn wifi driver > being unreliable for ages, and finally got round to rewiring to get a > direct ethernet connection from my router. Anyway, for the first time in > months I have run all day long without an OpenOffice crash. With > multiple documents open, with all the activities I do still being done. > > Really could this be related to a piece of network hardware? This might > explain why people are seeing different results on different machines - > a different wifi card, or different driver version perhaps. Maybe OOo or > one of its components tries to chat to the network unnecessarily during > certain events and it gets confused. Either way, I hope my luck holds > out. > > I don't know if just disabling the wifi would have the same effect, but > that might be a worthwhile test for somebody out there. > > -- > OpenOffice crashes with high frequency > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579966 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: openoffice.org > > OpenOffice will crash at least once for every two hours of use. The chance > of a crash is increased by, but NOT exclusively caused by, memory-intensive > operations such as copy-pastes or saves of large amounts of info (ex. 10,000 > lines in a spreadsheet). > > After the crash, sometimes OpenOffice will work normally when you try to > start it again. > > Other times an soffice.bin process will appear in the process list and stay > there, but nothing visual will appear. Only by forcibly killing that > process and then trying AGAIN to start OpenOffice, can you get it to work > again. > > ProblemType: Bug > DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 > Package: openoffice.org (not installed) > ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2 > Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686 > Architecture: i386 > Date: Thu May 13 14:30:04 2010 > EcryptfsInUse: Yes > InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429) > ProcEnviron: > PATH=(custom, user) > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > SHELL=/bin/bash > SourcePackage: openoffice.org > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/579966/+subscribe > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out my website / blog for news, pictures and more http://blog.arcticonline.com -- OpenOffice crashes with high frequency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
