On Tuesday 05 April 2005 02:37, Cyrille Moureaux wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> > When OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 starts up; the splash screen is displayed and
> > the progress bar displays about 80% and then an error message appears
> > stating an error in regard to an object called GetDevice and states that
> > the device name is empty.  The message instructs the user to contact the
> > system administrator.  This system is based on Win XP and SP2.
>
> I know it's not exactly what you describe, but wouldn't the error
> message be "GetStorage: No content"? If that's the case, this issue is a
> known one and steps to correct it can be found in
> http://documentation.openoffice.org/faqs/installation/026.html

Yes, that the GetStorage was the correct object name.  And the problem was the 
common.xcu file.  

Sorry, I did not review the installation issues since I was not having an 
installation problem.  But it would seem that this type of issue could be 
easily resolve through the repair process or the remove/install process.  

Thank you so much for the reply and the wonderful assistance.
James


>
> If this is not the error you're seeing, note that if you want to really
> reinstall from scratch OpenOffice.org, it may be a good idea, after
> removing the product, to also remove (or rename or relocate on the hard
> drive) the "OpenOffice.org<version>/user" directory mentioned in that
> FAQ so that even the configuration changes you may have done while using
> the previous installation of OpenOffice.org are cleared.
>
> If your error is not the one I mentioned above, it would be a good idea
> to just rename or put somewhere else that user directory, so that if
> such a move fixes the issue its contents can be looked at to try and
> determine the source of the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cyrille
>
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