Re: Trouble with Power-PC port

[Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>]

Hi Clive,

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 12:23:27AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> My set-up is Debian woody on a dual processor 450 MHz Mac G4, running OOo
> 1.0.3.-2+1.
> 
> It all seems to work fine so far except for one important element.
> 
> If I try to open Excel Workbooks (either produced in Office98 for Mac or
> OfficeXP for Mac) OpenOffice starts to load and just before it displays
> the workbook, closes itself.  If I open OOo first and then try to open
> the workbook it still closes just before displaying the workbook.
> 
> On our network we've also got two 686i PC's running open office on woody
> and they can open these workbooks fine; if they are saved on the PC's 
> first, some of them (but not all) will open on my G4.  Sods law is that the
> ones that I really need to be able to open, don't.  We've tried saving
> them in various formats to no avail.
> 
> It seems only to happen when opening workbooks that have been created on
> Mac OS (8.6 or 9.0).
> 
> I searched the bug reports on openoffice.org but couldn't see anything
> similar.
> 
> If you would like me to try anything to help isolate the problem, pls
> let me know.

Did you try starting OOo from the console?  I guess you may see a message
like the one in this bugreport:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=191989

If not, can you try to reproduce this with a non-Debian build, ie download
a binary install .tar.gz from openoffice.org and do a single user install
and try to reproduce.  It would also be helpful to know if this problem
exists in 1.1, which you could test for us if you have the download
bandwidth.  We only have 1.1 unstable builds for ppc so you'll need to use a
.tar.gz installation if you don't want the unstable libraries on your
machine.

Thanks,
Chris