[CentOS] OpenOffice 3.3.0 crashing on CentOS 5.5

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plnet.rs
Tue Jun 28 15:17:28 UTC 2011


Wade Hampton wrote:
> The last few releases of OpenOffice have gotten very
> unstable on my desktop which is a CentOS 5.5 i386 system.
> After multiple crashes when doing embedded simple drawings
> in OpenOffice writer (circles and lines with connections), I
> started using the versions from Sun then Oracle.  I am
> now using version 3.3:  openooffice.org3-3.3.0-9567.  I've
> lived with this but with version 3.x it has gotten really bad.
> 
> Display info:  depth 16-bit, Intel Boradwater-G Chipset 965Q
> 
> Crashes I am experiencing now:
> 
>   Writer sometimes using 100% CPU and X is unresponsive.
>     (I have to ssh to the workstation and kill Writer to recover.)
> 
>   Random crashes in Writer
> 
>   Writer crashes when moving circles or lines in
>     simple drawings (mainly circles, lines, clipart, etc.)
>     (insert -> object -> OLE object -> OO drawing)...
> 
>   crashes in Calc when adding text at the end of a
>     line of text in a cell.
> 
> Could this be a problem with some setting or with Java?
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated,
> --
> Wade Hampton
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Are there any crash reports?

Run OOO from terminal so you can capture errors and problems.

Ljubomir



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