NoOp mentioned : => On 03/28/2008 04:38 AM, Stef wrote: => > Hi , => > => > I'm using openoffice.org version 2.4 under debian unstable. => > Since version 2.3.1, I've been experiencing a problem where => > every time I click anything in the => > menu bar (e.g. File , Edit, View,Insert, Format,Tools etc.) => > I get a black screen of death. My screen becomes completely black, => > and the whole machine freezes. I cannot even login with ssh or anything. => > Only openoffice does this to me, and I really don't know what special => > X call openoffice does to trigger this. I'm really desperate to get => > this fixed, because I write a lot of documents using openoffice, => > and so far I've had to revert back to abiword and gnumeric, but => > I don't have all the awesome features available that I have in => > openoffice. => > => > I'm using Xorg X server, and no XGL settings. I have a nvidia => > GE-Force-4 graphics card. => > => > Can someone please help steer me in the right direction to get => > this resolved. => > => > TIA => > Stefan => > => => Can you start OOo from a terminal to see what error messages you get on => startup? After the freeze can you Ctrl-Alt F1 and get to a tty console?
I ran OOo like this : /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin &> afile The content of afile after the crash and subsequent reboot was : X IO Error When the crash happens, none of the keys work. I tried Ctrl-Alt F1 thru F12, Ctrl-Alt Backspace etc. Nothing works. I tried to log into my machine from another machine on the same network. Before the crash I can log in fine, but after the crash everything is frozen. One thing I noticed at the end of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old after the crash and subsequent reboot is : Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting I didn't get this message there last time, but now I get it every time this crash happens. Any ideas? TIA Stefan -- Confidentiality Notice: http://ucs.co.za/conf.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
