openoffice/KDE irregularity
I recently installed openoffice641 on a SuSE7.2 pro, athlon box w/KDE2.2.2. Things seemed to work well so I installed it for each user (It seemed stupid to have to install 180mb for each user but I couldn't find any info about smaller user installs). Anyway after having installed it for the 4 users it stopped working for 2 of them (the first 2). If I try to run swriter from the command line the only output is: "//HACK: No such file or directory" I think this is normal for swriter (at least on my box). Then the message "Segmantation fault" I've looked for other error messages in various logs but found nothing. If I try to re-run the setup program from the install directory (for either of the 2 users that it doesn't work for) the first progress meter loads and runs then quits. I've been able to install and uninstall w/out problems under the other 2 users logins. Tonight I got a wild hair and tried running swriter under gnome for one of the broken users and it loaded just fine so I suspect a problem w/ my KDE config. (I know that there were no kde config changes between install and the break for at least one of the 2 users which won't work). I've just got no Idea which of the zillions of files in .kde/.kde2 would relate to this problem. The open office web site didn't lead me anywhere. I will greatly appreciate any ideas. thanks -- dh
On Monday 11 March 2002 14:10, David Herman wrote:
Anyway after having installed it for the 4 users it stopped working for 2 of them (the first 2). If I try to run swriter from the command line the only output is: "//HACK: No such file or directory" I think this is normal for swriter (at least on my box). Then the message "Segmantation fault"
Get exactly the same here on SuSE7.3 on my laptop. No amount of trawling on google has been able to help and the bug interface at OO is not helpful. I'm waiting for the next release to see if anything improves. I have the Chinese beta version of SO 6.0 and that works quite well with the occassional crash. Jethro
On Wednesday 13 March 2002 10:01 pm, Jethro Cramp wrote:
On Monday 11 March 2002 14:10, David Herman wrote:
Anyway after having installed it for the 4 users it stopped working for 2 of them (the first 2). If I try to run swriter from the command line the only output is: "//HACK: No such file or directory" I think this is normal for swriter (at least on my box). Then the message "Segmantation fault"
Get exactly the same here on SuSE7.3 on my laptop. No amount of trawling on google has been able to help and the bug interface at OO is not helpful. I'm waiting for the next release to see if anything improves.
I did some more investigsation this morning, tried changing /home/.sversionrc amongst other things. Those changes made absulutely no diference. I think the //HACK... part of the message may be normal behavior. All I know is that OpenOffice totally refuses to function at all (running the application or installer) in a KDE session for 2 of my users while working fine for the other 3. If I use a different window manager (tried blackbox, windowmaker and gnome) then the application works fine for all of the users. I was also able to uninstall and install the application if using these window managers (although blackbox / x11 crashed when I pressed the "un-install completed" button.) Its got to be something to do with /home/.kde2/ or but I've got no Idea what to look for. -- dh
How you do start openoffice after installing it. not been able to do that yet. thanks jack
All I know is that OpenOffice totally refuses to function at all (running the application or installer) in a KDE session for 2 of my users while working fine for the other 3.
If I use a different window manager (tried blackbox, windowmaker and gnome) then the application works fine for all of the users. I was also able to uninstall and install the application if using these window managers (although blackbox / x11 crashed when I pressed the "un-install completed" button.)
Its got to be something to do with /home/.kde2/ or but I've got no Idea what to look for. -- dh
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On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:12 pm, Jack Malone wrote:
How you do start openoffice after installing it. not been able to do that yet.
If you did a standard install (as a user) then: 1) open a shell 2) cd /home/(users login)/OpenOffice.org641/program/ 3) ./swriter (for write) (scalc, simpress, sdraw are other choices) You can of course make desktop links if all works well. As far as I can tell you cannot do a single install as root that all other users can access, you have to install 180 mb for each user that wants to run Open Office. Perhaps someone else knows about this? -- dh
On Thursday, 14 March 2002 18:38, David Herman wrote:
On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:12 pm, Jack Malone wrote:
How you do start openoffice after installing it. not been able to do that yet.
If you did a standard install (as a user) then:
1) open a shell 2) cd /home/(users login)/OpenOffice.org641/program/ 3) ./swriter (for write) (scalc, simpress, sdraw are other choices)
Pardon my intrusion: don't you have to do 'soffice' before that? gr (in /usually/ sunny, balmy Florida) ¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ "Never believe anything you read, and rarely believe anything you think." Derrick Jensen
On Thursday 14 March 2002 06:40 pm, gilson redrick wrote:
On Thursday, 14 March 2002 18:38, David Herman wrote:
On Thursday 14 March 2002 03:12 pm, Jack Malone wrote:
How you do start openoffice after installing it. not been able to do that yet.
If you did a standard install (as a user) then:
1) open a shell 2) cd /home/(users login)/OpenOffice.org641/program/ 3) ./swriter (for write) (scalc, simpress, sdraw are other choices)
Pardon my intrusion: don't you have to do 'soffice' before that?
I haven't needed to, (at least for the users and windowmanagers that I can get open office to run on) but I suppose you could save one directory level if you want to run it that way. -- dh
David, I noticed two things. In KDE in .sversionrc there are individual entries for Star Office and Open Office. In my version the line for open office looks wrong: OpenOffice.org 641=file:///opt/OpenOffice.org641 I changed this to: OpenOffice.org 641=/opt/OpenOffice.org641 and Open Office would start but then crash with the following error. ./soffice: //HACK: No such file or directory Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x1696)! Progress!! Jethro
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