Star Office 6 crashing
I have received the CD from SuSE with Staroffice 6.0, and installed it. Now when I want to open a M$ office word file, or spreadsheet, I get a message that an unrecovarble error happened, and Staroffice closes. I was able to open a sdw file, that I created some time ago using Staroffice5.2. That was created openening a M$ word file, so in 5.2 it did work. I even took this file, and saved it in Word97. Closed Staroffice, started Staroffice again, and opened the file. And Staroffice crashed again. I re installed it. The same thing still happens. I opened a Staroffice 5 spreadsheet, worked on it and wanted to save it in Staroffice 6 format, .sxc. The save failed, because 'the operation was started under a wrong parameter'. And clicking on OK makes Staroffice disappear again. I am not so happy. Any one with suggestions? -- Frits J. Wüthrich (Sent with Kmail)
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Have people who paid $75 for SO6 "proper" -- which presumably doesn't
include distro-specific rpm's -- had similar problems?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frits J. Wüthrich"
I have received the CD from SuSE with Staroffice 6.0, and installed it. Now when I want to open a M$ office word file, or spreadsheet, I get a message that an unrecovarble error happened, and Staroffice closes. I was able to open a sdw file, that I created some time ago using Staroffice5.2. That was created openening a M$ word file, so in 5.2 it did work. I even took this file, and saved it in Word97. Closed Staroffice, started Staroffice again, and opened the file. And Staroffice crashed again. I re installed it. The same thing still happens. I opened a Staroffice 5 spreadsheet, worked on it and wanted to save it in Staroffice 6 format, .sxc. The save failed, because 'the operation was started under a wrong parameter'. And clicking on OK makes Staroffice disappear again. I am not so happy.
Any one with suggestions?
-- Frits J. Wüthrich (Sent with Kmail)
On Monday 08 July 2002 03:52 pm, Frits J. Wüthrich wrote:
I have received the CD from SuSE with Staroffice 6.0, and installed it. Now when I want to open a M$ office word file, or spreadsheet, I get a message that an unrecovarble error happened, and Staroffice closes. I was able to open a sdw file, that I created some time ago using Staroffice5.2. That was created openening a M$ word file, so in 5.2 it did work. I even took this file, and saved it in Word97. Closed Staroffice, started Staroffice again, and opened the file. And Staroffice crashed again. I re installed it. The same thing still happens. I opened a Staroffice 5 spreadsheet, worked on it and wanted to save it in Staroffice 6 format, .sxc. The save failed, because 'the operation was started under a wrong parameter'. And clicking on OK makes Staroffice disappear again. I am not so happy.
Any one with suggestions? I'm currently working through these issues myself, with some success.
Check and make sure so6 installed to your home directory. Run /opt/staroffice6.0/program/setup and repair as necessary. In tools>options>staroffice>paths, make sure the paths point to /home, not /opt. This has allowed me to open .doc files and save .sdc files as .sxc. .sxc is apparently a zipped format, takes forever to load and save. I may revert to .sdc. -- Jim Barnes -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. -Lazarus Long -- SuSE linux 8.0, 2.4.18-4GB, KMail 1.4 -- 5:13pm up 11:27, 2 users, load average: 0.24, 0.16, 0.05
Thanks Jim,
My brutal but effective way was to uninstall and reinstall SO6 in a network
rather than a standalone workstation configuration.
The bugs seem to have disappeared -- it's now for instance possible to
install new printer drivers.
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Barnes"
On Tuesday 09 July 2002 00:14, Jim Barnes wrote:
I'm currently working through these issues myself, with some success.
Check and make sure so6 installed to your home directory. Run /opt/staroffice6.0/program/setup and repair as necessary.
This was installed at that place, so I didn't change this one.
In tools>options>staroffice>paths, make sure the paths point to /home, not /opt.
I changed a few entries from /opt to /home/frits and deeper, and now I can open doc and xls without any problems! I am very happy. I think SuSE needs to change the locations in the installation of the package.
This has allowed me to open .doc files and save .sdc files as .sxc. .sxc is apparently a zipped format, takes forever to load and save. I may revert to .sdc.
When I made some changes to a .sdc file, Star Office 6.0 warned that not all formatting can be saved in that format, and it suggested the .sxc Now it also saves in this formats, it didn't take too long, about 2 seconds. The same spreadsheet in .sdc is 104.5kB, the .xls version is 71.5kB, and the .sxc version is 24.5kB. So it is indeed very compact Thank you very much Jim for helping me out! -- Frits J. Wüthrich (Sent with Kmail)
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