Hi :) Java is notoriously unreliable with many intermittently and situation-specific problems. Sadly it's not the case that if it works in one place that it can be relied on anywhere else. It's quirky problematic nature is more like the problems with Flash, only much worse. Regards from TomD :)
On 29 June 2016 at 15:15, M Henri Day <mhenri...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2016-06-29 15:57 GMT+02:00 Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com>: > >> Hi :) >> Crashing used to be usually due to having Java active. >> >> Base often uses Java and so do screen-readers and such but almost >> everything 'normal' users do doesn't need Java at all. It's possible to >> just switch Java off in just LibreOffice before considering removing it >> entirely. If it grumbles then just re-enable it. >> >> >> More likely is that you maybe just need to bump up the settings in >> "Memory". The default settings there are for ancient very low-spec >> machines and if you have a 1Gb of ram or more then bumping up the amount >> of >> ram that LO can use might well help quite a bit. >> Tools - Options - Memory ? or Advanced? >> >> >> Of course crashing could also be a hardware issue such as wobbly >> graphics-card that just needs to be pushed in a bit more firmly (while the >> computer is off, of course!) - or perhaps damaged ram or hard-drive. >> These >> sorts of things are fairly unlikely in your case i would think and the >> simpler answers are worth trying before worrying about any of that stuff. >> Trying the PPA is an excellent idea of course. >> Regards form >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> >> On 26 June 2016 at 14:36, Bruce Hohl <bruceh...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Tom, >> > I just updated to LO 5.1.4.2 from the Ubuntu PPA's on Ubuntu 14.04 >> (really >> > LXLE Posh). I checked deleting rows from a few worksheets and >> encountered >> > no errors. If you are using Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based OS you might try >> > getting LO from the PPAs per the links below as these are packaged for >> > Ubuntu. >> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOffice >> > https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloydm...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> > > I downloaded the *.deb installer yesterday, and installed it a little >> > over >> > > an hour ago. It's crashed 6 times in the first hour. No matter how I >> try >> > to >> > > delete a spreadsheet row, I get a modal window with an error message. >> > > Clicking that away leads to all of LO just disappearing. >> > > >> > > Here's my version: >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > And the error message I keep seeing - >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > I can't use this version if it acts like this, so I'm reverting to my >> > > previous one. >> > > >> > > Let me know if I can help any more. >> > > >> > > Tom >> > > Tom (Davies), thought I'd mention that Java is enabled (1.8.0_91) > is enabled on my version of > > LO 5.1.4.2, so it seems unlikely that OP Tom Cloyd's problem - which, as > noted above, I do not encounter - is Java- related. As in Bruce's case, My > version (1:5.1.4-0ubuntu1~trusty1) was downloaded and installed via the > Ubuntu PPA.... > > Henri > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
