Re: Openoffice has stopped working (sarge)

[matt zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:46, Joan Tur wrote:
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> Hallo!
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> Openoffice seems not to work any more.  I've tryed running it as user and root 
> with no luck (sarge version = 1.1.2).
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> quini@quinipt:~$ ooffice
> OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
> running openoffice.org setup...
> Setup complete.  Running openoffice.org...
> 
> Starting configuration import into user data ..
> .. importing layer file:///tmp/oooLocale.XXXXKROR6N - succeeded
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> It doesn't show any error message, and the starting app window appears, then 
> stops loading.  If I kill the app the .lock file is in the openoffice's user 
> directory.
> 
> I've tryed uninstalling it with --purge, and installing version 1.1.1 with no 
> luck (same behaviour).
> 
> If I try to open ooffice the main window appears, and it hangs when I select 
> new or open a file; if I try to start one of the different components 
> (oowrite, oocalc...), no window appears, and I have to kill the app.
> 
> Installed debs:
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> quini@quinipt:~/Agenda$ apt-show-versions |grep openo
> openoffice.org-debian-files/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2+1
> openoffice.org-bin/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2
> openoffice.org-l10n-en/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2
> openoffice.org-help-es/testing uptodate 1.1+20030814-2
> openoffice.org-crashrep/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2
> openoffice.org-l10n-ca/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2
> openoffice.org/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2
> openoffice.org-mimelnk/testing uptodate 1.1.2-2
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> Any idea?  TIA  ;)

i was having similar troubles. i just started oowriter and after the
splash image appeared it took around 10 minutes for oowriter to start.

-matt