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Re: Potato with StarOffice 5.1



Yes, I just tried installing personal set up again. It used to work a while
ago, ~ 1 month, on the same machine running potato. To day it just freeze X up
tightly. No Idea how to fiz this :( May be it's the library.

regards

Chanop

On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 12:20:47PM +0000, jchristensen@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
> 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.

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