On Thursday 18 January 2007 20:45, Peter Pearson wrote:
> OpenOffice Writer hangs whenever I execute a macro -- no particular
> macro, as it even happens when no macro is defined at all.
>
> OpenOffice version: 2.0.2-2ubuntu12.2, Thu Jan 11 01:39:38 UTC 2007
> Operating system: Ubuntu
>
> To exhibit the problem:
>
> 1. At command line, type ooffice.
> (Or start Writer any other way, for that matter.)
> A window appears entitled "Untitled1 - OpenOffice.org Writer".
>
> 2. Select "Tools / Macros / Run Macro...".
>
> 3. OpenOffice.org Writer is hung: the drop-down "Tools" menu
> and its "Macros" sub-menu do not retract. Dragging another
> window across the OpenOffice Writer window leaves a gray
> trail. Below the command line, this message appears:
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb61f2678 ***
>
> I downloaded and installed a new OpenOffice from openoffice.org,
> OOo_2.1.0_LinuxIntel_iinstall_en-US.tar.gz, but the problem remains
> unchanged.
>
> Can everybody else use macros? Is it just me? Does anybody out
> there run OpenOffice under Ubuntu and use macros successfully?
I can run macros on openSuSE without any problems.
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