On 11/13/2008 02:26 PM, M Henri Day wrote:

>>
>> 1. What extensions do you have installed?
> 
> 
> I've checked under «Tools» → «Extensions» and not found any installed
> extensions. Am I missing something ?

Apparently if OOo is prompting you for and Extension update. But what is
causing it is a mystery to me if you have no extensions installed.
Perhaps it is the &@^%#$ default dictionaries that OOo 3.0 seem
determined to install as root. You can remove those stupid things, but
you must run as superuser/root to do it:

sudo /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

That will open as superuser/root and then you can click on
Tools|Extension Manager and just remove them. Note: I use the English
one, but after removing via root, I then reinstall as a user so I don't
have to worry about it any further.

> 
>>
>> 2. What do you have set for your default browser?
>> System|Preferences|Preferred Applications
> 
> 
> I previously had the Swiftweasel command installed, but when I started
> receiving these messages, I changed to Firefox to see if that would resolve
> the problem. It did not.

Perhaps try logging out and then back in will work.

> 
> 
>> I'd advise sending the crash report to Sun.
> 
> 
> Done several times.

You only need to do it once in most cases.

> 
> Thanks, Gary, for your speedy response ! I've noticed that the latest OOo
> 3.0 version from the download pages seems to be 3.0.0-18 ; would you suggest
> that I try to install that (not the simplest process in the world, given
> that I'm running an AMD 64 X machine) ? Before writing to the forum I tried
> to resolve my problem by installing the LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz
> package after uninstalling my present setup, but the resulting package
> didn't work. I suspect that the Swedish package does not contain all the
> requisite packages and that it must be installed on top of a
> LinuxX86-64_install_en_US_deb.tar.gz package. Are am I barking up the wrong
> tree ?...
> 

Well, if you really want to go to the edge you can try the 3.1 dev:
http://download.openoffice.org/680/?intcmp=1461
[Note: I've not tried this myself yet...]

I'm not sure where you are getting 3.0.0-18 from, perhaps that is a
64bit thing. OOo 3.0 32bit is 3.0.0-9. They probably found it clever to
double the 9 for 18 given that 64 is double 32.

LinuxX86-64_install_sv_deb.tar.gz is a localized version:
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/Office/OpenOffice.org/localized/sv/3.0.0/
so I guess you'd need to check on the Swedish list to see if others are
having problems with that package. I'd recommend putting the original US
version back in - it is buildid=300m9(Build:9358) on 32 bit - you can
check your version from a terminal by:

cat /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc

Or, if you get OOo to open, just Help|About OpenOffice.org will show the
same.


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