Hello all, my original question is at the end...
With the helpful questions/suggestions of NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and TerryJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> i could overcome my own dumbness and find this webpage: http://www.void.gr/kargig/blog/2006/05/27/fixing-openoffice-crash-with-font-dro p-down-menu/ Following that idea i could identify my problem: Because i've tried to offer more than the few default fonts to my users i've looked around on our disks with "spadmin". Now "spadmin" found some *.afm and *.pfa fonts, but obviously the mechanism of the font-drop-down-menu got confused with those (or only some of them?). After i've removed all links to those *.afm and *.pfa fonts, now the font-drop-down-menu does no longer crash OOo. With regards, Bernt Christandl ########################################## > > Hello, > > i have a puzzle that i can't solve and would need some help: > > I have 3 versions of OOo installed into different subdirectories on our > fileserver: 2.2, 2.1, 2.0.4 > > and i have 3 (types of) PCs running some version of > (selfmade/Debian-based) linux > all accessing the same/identical openoffice-software: > Type A: kernel 2.6.18.1 with gcc-3.4.5 and glibc-2.3 > Type B: kernel 2.6.20.1 with gcc-4.1.1 and glibc-2.3 and > Type C: kernel 2.6.21.1 with gcc-4.1.2 and glibc-2.5 > > Now when i start OOo, do a "Ctrl_N" for a new text document and > after that comes up, click on the little black triangle right > of the font-selection field, to get the list of available fonts > to select another one, in some combinations OOo crashes completely: > > Machine | OOo22 | OOo21 | OOo204 > -------------------------------------- > A | works | works | works > B | crash | crash | works > C | crash | crash | works > -------------------------------------- > > When i click on that very similar font-size-selection triangle > in all cases the list of available sizes unfoldes. > > And when i do not try to select another font, i can enter text > with the upcoming one. > > Any ideas what kind of a problem i have and how to solve it? > > Thanx! > > Bernt Christandl > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
