Since several people have had success with version 3.2, I suppose I
should try it again, just to make sure I'm really talking about the
right version. It's [possible I misremember a detail of what I didn, or
that somehow I was still getting the old version after installing the
new one .. maybe some process was still accessible form the window
manager cache, or something like that. I'll try again after a full
shutdown and reboot just to make sure everything is as it seems.
I know at one time with the older version, when I couldn't get it to
come up after the crash, I found a process called something like
soffice-bin was still hanging around. I killed it and OpenOffice (which
I had previously started from the command line with no apparent success)
came up immediately. Maybe there was something like that going on after
the upgrade???
Thanks. I'll be back with a success report, or else with a fully
detailed failure!
Sadly, it's not a success report. I failed to create a .fodt file.
The openoffice I'm using reports itself as:
ooo-build 3.2.0.10, Debian 1:3.2.0-9 Sun May 2 18:53:43 UTC 2010
I start OpenOffice writer from the many my window manager provides.
I start mousing around.
I start a new document.
format->page; check footer on
click into that footer.
insert->fields->Page Number
A page number appears at the left end of the footer.
format->paragraph; Alignment Option Center OK
file-Save As
set Name: TestPage
select OpenDocumentText (flat XML) (.fodt)
Save
I get
OpenOffice.org Document Recovery
Due to an unexpected error, OpenOffice.org crashed. All the files you
were working on will now be saved. The next time OpenOffice.org is
lanuched, your file will be recovered automatically.
The following will be recovered:
Untitled 1
Untitled 2
Alas. it's not working yet. My guess is there's some Debian OpenOffice
package that you guys have and I don't. Or else that there's some file
you have left over from an old version that I don't. Or something like
that. But I could be completely wrong on this.