Re: staroffice (fwd)
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Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 14:34:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Weiss <fudd@brian.got.net>
To: Tor Slettnes <tor@netcom.com>
Subject: Re: staroffice
On 21 Jun 1998, Tor Slettnes wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to linux.debian.user as well.
>
> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Weiss <fudd@brian.got.net> writes:
>
> Brian> Don't worry about the OpenLinux thing, i ran StarOffice 4.0
> Brian> just fine on my old Slackware system. One thing I would
> Brian> worry about though (since I too run Debian) is it working
> Brian> at all. For some unknown reason (I've tried two different
> Brian> releases of 4.0) after a few seconds it just freezes and I
> Brian> cant even close the window. I'm running Debian 1.3 (bo) so
> Brian> hamm might fix this. Please let me know if you get it
> Brian> running ok.
>
> I am running Hamm/Slink, and am seeing a similar symptom. Actually,
> more than that:
>
> - Service pack 3 (unlike the original SO4 up to SP2) creates a bunch
> of directories straight in my home directory, not in the
> StarOffice subdirectory (I put it in ~/.staroffice).
>
> - Sometimes when I start, it waits a few seconds, then tells me
> "Virtual memory exceeded in `new'". Sometimes it actually goes
> into a loop of ever-increasing memory consumption (according to
> procmeter), and freezes. Only "kill -9" helps then.
>
> - Sometimes it freezes just at random.
>
>
> The funny thing is, I just installed Debian Hamm on a co-workers
> machine today, and put on SO4 along with it. Exact same procedure,
> but everything works fine on his machine.
>
> Let me ask you:
> - Do you use a Cyrix processor? (I do. One of the orignal 6x86 P200+)
> - Do you have 'libc4' installed? (I do, for RealAudio 3.0)
> - KDE? (That's what I use)
>
> -tor
>
Actually, you'll be happy to know that I figured out the problem. At least
in my situation. It's something fairly stupid and something I think could
be easily fixed by stardivision. What was creating my freeze was
installing it to /usr/local/Office40 instead of /home/fudd/Office40. This
is somewhat weird because on my old slackware system I installed it to
/usr/local/Office40 and it ran just fine. Apparently StarOffice uses
another method of global installation. It installs some files globally and
then still must create certain files in the users home directory. I didn't
bother with this since my system is pretty private anyway, so I just
installed to my home directory and it runs fine now.
I also had a problem with memory consumption by multiple soffice
processes. I actually went into 2k of swap :P. kill -9 fixed that just
fine though. It seems to me that it must not be finding certain files it
needs to run properly when installed under another directory. This is a
completely stupid bug on the part of stardivision. They give you a chance
during installation to choose the install directory and yet it doesn't
work if you change this directory. Most Windows 95 programs support
alternate installation directories even. The fact that it worked fine on
my old slackware system still puzzles me. Give this a try and let me know
if it works or not.
(My system in case you're still interested)
Intel Pentium II - 400mhz
128mb RAM
Debian 1.3 - 2.1.106
No, I do not have libc4 installed.
I have run StarOffice 4.0 on both KDE and WindowMaker. The window manager
shouldn't make any difference in most cases.
.-
Brian Weiss (fudd@efnet)
http://www.got.net/~brian
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