Re: staroffice, potato (patching the kernel)
On Mon, Nov 29, 1999 at 10:16:04PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote:
>
> egm2 >Well, I have potato with 2.2.13 and StarOffice working fine here. Any
> egm2 >idea what the patch applies to? Perhaps I'm not using whatever it is
> egm2 >that breaks it.
>
> from what i got off the mailing list (see kt.linuxcare.com) it had to do
> with the java part of SO, trying to access a non existant(and apparently
> undocumented) /proc file, then puking when it couldnt find it. it may
> affect other parts of SO im not sure
>
Well, that might explain why I don't have a problem, since Java is not
enabled with my SO implementation (I didn't have any Java installed when
I installed SO, so the installer didn't enable it). I was thinking of
reinstalling SO to try to enable the Java -- at least if I do so, I'll
have a clue why it'd start puking.
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