I have installed OpenOffice.org version 3.0.0, build 9358, on a Debian
amd-64 laptop.  I have just written a writer document, but I cannot save
it.  I have managed to save in MS Office 97/2000 format, though.

The error message does not help in any way, it does not point at any
particular place in the text, it does not specify the nature of the
error, there is no partially written file that I could examine (or I
could not find it).

My .xsession-errors does not contain anything from OOo, but that could
be due to a "feature" of the display manager (gdm).  Whenever I start a
browser (unrelated to OOo) the .xsession-errors fills up with repeated
messages until gdm writes "...Too much output, ignoring rest...".

To get around this gdm feature, I have tried to attach to the soffice
process with "strace", to see if it writes anything to stdout or stderr.
It does not seem to do.  (The output is so voluminous and difficult to
navigate, but searching for the regular expression "write.*([12]," did
not find anything, while "write.*([0-9]*," did.)

I do observe that OOo writes to files in /tmp, like
"/tmp/svf1p.tmp/svg7f.tmp", but it subsequently deletes the files before
I can have a chance to examine their contents for any hints.

The document contains parts in different languages, that is the only
thing that may be unusual, that I am aware of. (Languages English (UK),
French (fr), Norwegian (two variants, "Bokmål" and "Nynorsk"). However,
I am pretty sure I have saved several times along the way.  I have had
the application open for several days, and it would be no small amount
of work lost if I loose everything.

How can I get past this?

Should I report a bug? I have found a few messages on the web containing
(almost) the same error message, but it applied to 2.4. To report, how
do I do?

Regards,
Enrique



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