On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 17:54:15 -0800 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > On 02/23/2007 01:10 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > I have three JRE environments installed. They all appear in Tools > > > Options > Java and I have tried them all without any change in the > > problem. All were installed when the database was created, although I > > am not sure which one was selected at the time. > > First off I think that you'd mentioned in another thread that you are > running Sun Microsystems 1.5.0_08; please update. See: > > <http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102760-1&searchclause=%22category:security%22%2420%22availability,%2420security%22%2420category:security> > > 11 is the latest version & you can obtain it from here: > http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index_jdk5.jsp > [scroll down to Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 5.0 Update 11]
> Once you've done that, from a terminal: > sudo update-alternatives --config java > and select the Sun version (if that is what you want to run). > Then open OOo and select the same version that you've selected for your > system Java. > > I suspect that having matching system & OOo Java versions will fix > several OOo java problems that you've been experiencing (including > wizards). Thanks for the suggestions. Here is what I have done: 1) Opened Synaptic, found there was a Sun 6.0 version. Installed it. Didn't make any difference. 2) Renamed the ~/.openoffice.org2 folder by appending .old. 3) Opened Synaptic, did a search on "java" and deleted anything even remotely resembling Java. 4) Some of the Java stuff also wanted to uninstall OOo. I let it. 5) Searched on "openoffice" and uninstalled the whole maryanne -- everything. 6) Restarted the computer, opened Synaptic, marked openoffice.org for installation, which also marked the rest of the basic stuff. Intalled it. 7) Opened a terminal and used the --config java command. It found just one Java installed. 8) Launched Writer, discovered that the wizards letter, fax and agenda wizard worked now, but the web wizard still crashes OOo. 9) Tried to open a database in dBase format. OOo seemed to be willing to open it, but after a while I realized it wasn't going anywhere. Suddenly parts of Gnome started disappearing. I still had the terminal window open and noticed that it said "segmentation fault." I tried opening top to kill OOo, but the terminal window was no longer responding. Finally keyboard and mouse died. Had to hit the power button. 10) After rebooting I launched OOo and tried to access a small database created with OOo Base in OOo 2.0.2 on Dapper. I could get the Base window to open and it showed the queries, but when I tried to open the table (only one table) all I could get was "unable to display contents." That is the same as I had before I did the complete remove-reinstall. 11) Drag and drop of text is still broken and some things in Tools > Options are not being saved to the default template. I'd go back to Dapper if I could, but you can't undo the upgrade to Edgy. For my next fun exercise I am going to uninstall this 2.0.4 and see if I can reinstall 2.0.2. It's no longer in the repositories, but I have the amd64 .deb files that I found on ubuntu.org -- that is I think I have all of them. The problem is that, as I just discovered with reinstalling 2.0.2, it also installs a lot of non-OOo packages. Reinstalling 2.0.4 installed 11 non-OOo packages as well as OOo. Note that I found .debs of 64-bit OOo 2.1 and installed it. It did not resolve any of my problems at all. And the display was a mess. Thanks for your suggestions. If anyone can think of anything else to try, I'm all ears. It's too bad this e-list is my only help; OOo will not support OOo installed on Ubuntu because they say it has been Ubuntu-ized. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
