On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:28:36AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > I just did an 'apt-get upgrade' and openoffice.org was upgraded from > 2.0.1 to 2.0.3 and now I am unable to save my files. When I do try to > save I get an error message saying that OpenOffice has crashed due to an > unknown error and that all of my files are saved. They are saved > without my changes, however. > > I had this same problem previously, when I switched from the upstream > version to the debian package on backports.org. (I thought that I had > commented bpo out of my sources.list, but apparently not -- hence, the > upgrade.) There had been some sort of configuration change, so the > solution had been to remove (or rename) my .openoffice.org2 directory > and let OOo rebuild a new one. I just tried that, now, but the problem > remains. > > Does anyone have a fix for the problem this time? Is this going to > happen every time that OOo is upgraded? > > -- > Marc Shapiro Marc: You'll find the solution at "http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=372719";. You need a new copy of libfreetype which as the page above says, can be obtained from "http://people.debian.org/~vorlon/libfreetype6_2.1.7-3_i386.deb";. Get a copy, and then do "dpkg -i libfreetype6_2.1.7-3_i386.deb". You may have to restart OO - can't remember.. Dean -- Dean Provins, P. Geoph. 50.95033N, 114.03791E provinsd@telusplanet.net dprovins@alumni.ucalgary.ca KeyID at at pgpkeys.mit.edu:11371: 0x9643AE65 Fingerprint: 9B79 75FB 5C2B 22D0 6C8C 5A87 D579 9BE5 9643 AE65
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