Bug#478760: openoffice.org-base: base unusable with or without java

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

reassign 478760 openoffice.org
retitle 478760 Java wizards and Base (hsqldb) freeze on powerpc
tag 478760 + confirmed
thanks

Hi,

Benoît Dejean wrote:
> oobase is unusable:
> - without java, i cannot even create a table, i get messages to get java
>   everywhere.

That's completely normal.

The internal db of OOo uses Java. That is no bug in Debian... (although it's of
course unfortunate that it relies on Java completely).

But you can also use a connection to a MySQL or PostgreSQL database and
don't need Java then for the internal hsqldb engine.

> - with java (default-jre), if i try to create a table, OOo goes 100%

With java-gcj-compat / gij therefore. Did you try an other JDK also?

> CPU forever (15minutes and still frozen). Which makes oobase useless
> and actually freezes every other OOo window.

Works for me, but...

> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: lenny/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

... this might be your problem. I once filed a bug against gcj for other
hangs (wizard) with the same symptoms, but it nnever get cared of (and
actually I don't find it anymore, maybe it got closed although not
fixed?)

Cc'ing the gcj maintainer.

I hope that OpenJDK will fix this...

Regards,

Rene