"Mike Masse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > To all, > I have checked the md5sum and it matches perfectly. > Here is a screen shot of my desktop almost 5 minutes after trying to > start OO Writer > http://masse.us/oo.gif > All other modules working great ... I am totally stumped
What happens if you open, say, Calc first, and while it is open, do File|New|Text Document from Calc? Does the problem seem to depend on whether Quickstarter is running or not? -- Bob Long > Mike Masse wrote: >> Ahhhhhhhhhhh.... very interesting. I will check that out this afternoon >> and let you know >> >> Thanks again >> >> >> Keith Bates wrote: >>> On Fri, 26 May 2006 21:08:19 -0400 >>> Mike Masse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Good Questions ... sorry for my lapse. >>>> >>>> These are all different systems. All are OO 2.0.2 One system is >>>> Windows NT (no problems); one is Win XP home on a Gateway laptop (no >>>> problems) and the problem system is Win XP home, 512 meg RAM, 58 gig >>>> free space on the drive I'm using for OO. Everything else seems to >>>> run well on the system in question ... including MSO. >>>> >>>> This is my second try ... OO removed, rebooted, re-installed from a >>>> fresh d/l >>>> >>>> Other modules seem to run fine ... it's just writer. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the reply >>>> >>>> Mike >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Bob Long wrote: >>>> >>>>> Mike Masse wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> I have two installs of Open Office working very well ... but this >>>>>> third one is driving me nuts. >>>>>> >>>>> Are these all on the same system? Or each on a different computer? >>>>> >>>>> Operating system? Version of each installation of OOo? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Everything except Writer seems to run >>>>>> perfectly. Writer will try to open, I will get the OpenOffice.org >>>>>> title bar across the top of my screen ... and sometimes I even get >>>>>> one ruler! After that appears OO hangs ... sometimes I need to >>>>>> reboot, sometimes I can shut the application. There are no error >>>>>> messages. Any ideas? >>>>>> >>>>> That will depend on the answers to the previous questions. If they >>>>> all the same version of OOo on the same version of operating >>>>> system, on different PCs, then perhaps there is a hardware >>>>> (memory?) fault. >>>>> >>>>> >>> I would suspect a faulty download. Did you check the md5sum? >>> >>> I had a similar problem once, discovered there was a bad copy on the >>> mirror I downloaded from, so fresh download didn't solve the problem. >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
