Potato with StarOffice 5.1

[jchristensen@hawaii.rr.com]

Hello,

I am having a problem when attempting to install StarOffice 5.1 on my potato
system and am hoping that one of you may know the solution. I have posted a
support request to nntp://starnews.sun.com/staroffice.com.support.install.linux/
without a response (so far). Another Debian user, Ian van der Neut, has also
posted a similar problem to the Sun newsgroup. We are both running potato with
glibc 2.1.2. For me the install script hangs upon clicking the 'Complete' button
after accepting the license, inputting any personal info and selecting a target
dir. I have tried various permutations of the options: accept all defaults,
custom installation, all, some or no personal info. No luck. I have searched
the Debian mailing list archives and the Debian newsgroups without success.
The output of ps aux includes the following lines, indicating multiple setup
processes with some (usually one) being defunct:

root       647  2.8  1.4  2048  940 ttyp0    S    08:47   0:06 ./setup
root       650  0.9 22.7 22992 14384 ttyp0   D    08:47   0:01 /tmp/sv003.tmp/setup.bin

root       654  0.0  0.0     0    0 ttyp0    Z    08:47   0:00 [setup.bin <defunct>]

root       656  0.0 22.7 22992 14384 ttyp0   S    08:49   0:00 /tmp/sv003.tmp/setup.bin


I have to kill all the setup processes from another vc to regain the control
of X.

Do any of you have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Jason