[SLE] SuSE 6.1->6.4 & Staroffice 5.1/5.2
HI, We had a computer lab of 40 machines as well as some faculty machines running SuSE 6.1 and StarOffice 5.1. And everybody was happy. Well, not everybody since it seemed to be nice to have a newer version of glibc...So we decdied to upgrade to SuSE 6.4, first on the faculty machines and everything worked fine. Then we updated one of the lab machines and cloned the other machines from this sample...everything ought to have been fine too, but: StarOffice5.1 decided to crash immewdiately upon start,... well it lasted long enough to show the splash screen and to give a warning dialog that all files would be saved...crash Since we wanted to move to StarOffice 5,2 anyways we decided to install that. This time as a network install with the StarOffice directory mounted via NFS and the user directories are NFS mounted anyways. Well, on the Faculty machines everything is still great but in the lab...starting StarOffice...the splash screen...the desktop appears ... and crash. When you start it from the command line every thing appears fine, ie. no error output. Neither are there any indications in the system logs... What is one to do (especially if StarOffice is supposed to use in a class nect week...)? Andreas -- Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow Chair of Science Concordia University College of Alberta aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
Don't know if it will help but you could read this. It might give you some clues for your situation. http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/sadrian_soffice_nfs.html * Andreas Guelzow (aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca) [000906 22:22]: -->HI, --> -->We had a computer lab of 40 machines as well as some faculty machines -->running SuSE 6.1 and StarOffice 5.1. And everybody was happy. --> -->Well, not everybody since it seemed to be nice to have a newer version -->of glibc...So we decdied to upgrade to SuSE 6.4, first on the faculty -->machines and everything worked fine. Then we updated one of the lab -->machines and cloned the other machines from this sample...everything -->ought to have been fine too, but: -->StarOffice5.1 decided to crash immewdiately upon start,... well it -->lasted long enough to show the splash screen and to give a warning -->dialog that all files would be saved...crash -->Since we wanted to move to StarOffice 5,2 anyways we decided to install -->that. This time as a network install with the StarOffice directory -->mounted via NFS and the user directories are NFS mounted anyways. Well, -->on the Faculty machines everything is still great but in the -->lab...starting StarOffice...the splash screen...the desktop appears ... -->and crash. When you start it from the command line every thing appears -->fine, ie. no error output. Neither are there any indications in the -->system logs... --> -->What is one to do (especially if StarOffice is supposed to use in a -->class nect week...)? --> -->Andreas -->-- -->Prof. Dr. Andreas J. Guelzow -->Chair of Science -->Concordia University College of Alberta -->aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca -->http://www.math.concordia.ab.ca/aguelzow --> -->-- -->To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com -->For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com -->Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq --> -- Cheers, Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ------------------------- "The only 'intuitive' interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned." -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq
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