[PLUG] OpenOffice will not load

[Anthony Schlemmer]

I wonder if using "strace" and tracing all of the system calls would 
help at all?

Tony

On Thursday 28 November 2002 09:46 am, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, cipher wrote:
> > This happened to me as well just recently.  I played around with
> > this for about three days before I finally ripped OpenOffice off my
> > box.  Fortunately, I did not have a large number of documents saved
> > in OpenOffice format.  I tried reinstalling, downloading the latest
> > and greatest, completely UN-installing then installing in different
> > directories...nothing worked. OpenOffice worked great for while and
> > then just went kaput.  It would be really nice to know what
> > "unforgivable sin" was committed, but for now, I have returned to
> > other office type applications (KOffice).
>
>   I also posted a request for help on the OO mail list. One fellow
> came back with the suggestion that -- as root -- I re-run 'setup
> -net' and select the 'repair' option. (Aside: with OO installed,
> running setup provides three choices: modify, repair and uninstall.)
> I did this but it made no difference. So, I'm waiting to read
> something more from the developers and folks who know the application
> better.
>
>   This is a very strange situation and one that I've not seen before.
> Your experience is equally strange. I'm not sufficiently guru to be
> able to understand what could possibly be preventing the application
> from loading after it worked for a few months. If nothing shows up in
> the process list, and a 'repair' has been run, I wouldn't even know
> where to start looking for a reason. Even for computers, this is
> totally illogical and irrational.
>
>   But, when I get it figured out I'll post the solution here. As
> AbiWord doesn't (yet) have the typefaces I need available, my
> business word processing has been moved from WordPerfect to
> OpenOffice Writer. I'm sure that the developers will focus on this
> problem since it's not just me and is certainly a critical error.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich
>
>
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