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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] Star Office *@&!% difficulties
From:       Juergen Braukmann <juergen.braukmann () ruhr-west ! de>
Date:       2001-07-15 16:29:55
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Nick Selby wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 07:59:17 +0100 Pam R wrote:
> 
> > On Sunday 15 July 2001 07:42, Nick Selby wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I am running Star Office 5.2 under 7.2, and have a problem. I opened a word
> > > 2000 document with S.O., and SO  crashed. When I went to restart it, it
> > > freezes with the SO opening logo and does not go any turther; the only way
> > > to get out of it is to kill soffice.bin. I've restarted X and still the
> > > problem remains. Can anyone offer a solution?
> > > 
> > Is this with one particular W2000 doc or with any? SO's filters aren't
> > perfect and probably won't be 100% effective until MS goes open source/GPL
> > 
> > Pam
> 
> It was one document. Perhaps I wasn't clear. SO worked fine until today. Then I \
> opened a prerfectly normal Word2000 document - text only, no graphics, charts, \
> tables, nuthin. As soon as the document opened, SO told me that it had hit a \
> nonrecoverable error, but, hey, don't worry, things will probably be peachy on \
> restart of SO. I tried to restart SO and that's whewn I saw the problem: I get the \
> opening banner on top of the normal SO desktop, but I cannot access anything behind \
> the banner. It's just crashed.. The only way to get outr is to kill soffice.bin. 
> nick
> 

That sounds very fishy Nick. Could it be that some stale lock file
remained? Or, alternativly The word document (hate them!) flipped a
switch in your SO config file? I rather go for the stale lock file,
followed by some surviving unknown SO process, but restarting X should
solve that too.

Juergen


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