Re: staroffice , potato , unrecoverable error
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 06:11:49AM +0000, John Leget wrote:
> Thanx but im aware of that, i ran setup for root and normal user so i
> can run it as either if need be.
>
> Anyway it used to work but somewhere along the line with upgrades it
> broke :(. So i downloaded the latest SO from sun etc...... :(
Were you running SO5.0? It's known to have many problems. Apparently
there were some calls to internal routines of the C lib that have
changed (or so I've been told).
>
> cheers.
>
> PS i still dont have an answer :does anyone have it running on potato ?.
>
> PS.PS yes... yes... i know its unstable but it has the files i would
> otherwise have to keep up with manually, anyway i still prefer potato to
> windows by a long shot >;0)
>
I have SO5.1a running fine for a few months now on a potato box. Got it
from the Sun website a couple months ago. Many fewer hiccups than
version 5.0. If SO5.1 still doesn't work for you, maybe try an strace to
find out where it chokes.
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