OpenOffice crashes while in use?

kbutcher5 · 2007-04-22 12:09:55

When i boot up openoffice i can open a new document and type in it, but thats it, any other function makes the program crash and really hold up the computer. I made a few tests and found out that root can run the program without it crashing, this is something one would avoid though, as it is leaving the system wide open, and the documents written would be saved as root, and I'm too lazy to do a chown every time
I searched the forums for some help, but i haven't found a case like mine, so any help would be nice.

ralvez · 2007-04-22 14:26:29

I think there is a problem with OO, perhaps a bug. I do not know if it is in the Arch "version" or if it is upstream but when I open PPTs (even old ones, that used to work fine in the previous version), they crash after running a few slides.
Perhaps one of the developers/maintainer would like to comment. I can provide the crashing ppts. if they are of any help to explore the problem.

R.

kbutcher5 · 2007-04-22 15:31:59

I think you might be right, i've seen alot of reports of it working like crap, as far as i have collected, it is the same on the OO.org forums, so it's not just us, but apparently its only the linux version, it's like theres some function only root has access to, try running OO.org with your root, then run your slideshows and see if it does the same?

SuiRIS · 2007-04-22 15:40:34

I have the same problem like ralvez.
Openoffice crashes even when I open prasentations with slides as root.

Bug is reported for 3 weeks: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6782?histring=office

kbutcher5 · 2007-04-22 15:45:07

have you tried the stuff with root suiris?

AndyRTR · 2007-04-22 16:55:08

the bug has been fixed already for a while for x86_64. wait for the i686 maintainer having time to rebuild and upload it. otherwise just check our cvs HEAD

kbutcher5 · 2007-04-22 17:27:27

good to know, as long as they fix it in the next two months i'm happy XD

SuiRIS · 2007-04-23 13:38:15

kbutcher5 wrote:

have you tried the stuff with root suiris?

Yes I tried it out. No changes. Openoffice crash.

@ AndyRTR Thx, I will wait or convert to Arch64

Last edited by SuiRIS (2007-04-23 13:40:59)

skottish · 2007-04-23 17:34:38

SuiRIS wrote:

@ AndyRTR Thx, I will wait or convert to Arch64

AndyRTR has been doing an awesome job with maintaining 64 bit including OpenOffice. If 64 bit has everything you need, I would say switch.

Weeks · 2007-04-25 13:46:18

I've been using OO Writer a lot in the past month. I've noticed no problems at all.

I'm using Sun's JRE.

Try running it as root.

If that doesn't work I suggest reinstalling it.

AndyRTR · 2007-04-25 13:49:23

OOo 2.2.0-4 is now also for i686 in the repos.

loupy · 2007-06-11 22:24:45

I know this thread is a bit old - but I just did a fresh install, and all the OpenOffice apps crash when I try to do any function. I am using the 2.2.0-4 package and there is no error appearing in the CLI when I try to invoke it that way. It crashes whether I am root or not. Is anyone else having this issue?

krupintupple · 2007-06-11 22:40:48

loupy wrote:

I know this thread is a bit old - but I just did a fresh install, and all the OpenOffice apps crash when I try to do any function. I am using the 2.2.0-4 package and there is no error appearing in the CLI when I try to invoke it that way. It crashes whether I am root or not. Is anyone else having this issue?

I've just started having this exact same issue. I can neither call the program normally or as root without it crashing immediately. It will display, however, for a split-second, typically in a font I don't entirely remember choosing, if that's any use.

I tried removing openoffice-base and then deleting .openoffice.org2 and installing to the latest version, but this did nothing. Also, strangely enough this doesn't ask for a bug report, or even register that anything went wrong.

thayer · 2007-06-11 23:06:55

Ditto... I noticed this morning that OOo crashes as soon as it opens. I just happened to be planning a fresh installation today, so I proceeded with wiping everything and starting over. Unfortunately, even with a fresh installation of GNOME and OOo, it still crashes. Must've been an update from last night or today because it was working fine yesterday.

ataraxia · 2007-06-11 23:09:33

There's another thread about this, and a bug report. I can't find either right now, though.

Last edited by ataraxia (2007-06-11 23:09:42)

Phlosten · 2007-06-12 00:07:29

I had a small list of files that were upgraded and was slowly reinstalling the old ones to see what may have borked OO. Looks like a problem with cairo and pycairo packages. I just downgraded those from Phraktured old mirror and OO worked again.

Get the two files from here: http://phraktured.net/archmirror/current/os/i686/
cairo-1.4.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
pycairo-1.2.2-2.pkg.tar.gz

Download them into a folder and run:
pacman -U cairo-1.4.4-1.pkg.tar.gz pycairo-1.2.2-2.pkg.tar.gz

loupy · 2007-06-12 00:19:45

That was it - Thank you very much!

krupintupple · 2007-06-12 00:23:17

this rollback seems to work perfectly, many thanks!

also, i know it's off topic, but i have one other extremely minor issue with open office. up until about a month ago, all of the icons it used to create were almost like little previews of the actual document, but now it's merely an ugly word-looking file. does anyone know how to change it back to the old method?

pain of salvation · 2007-06-12 02:46:34

I have the same problem...

I think I will move back to Arch64.. is OO working good on it?

mangus · 2007-07-04 21:26:58

sorry for bumping an old thread, but It seems I have this problem with OO right now..
Nome : openoffice-base
Versione : 2.2.1-2
Nome : cairo
Versione : 1.4.10-1
Nome : pycairo
Versione : 1.4.0-2

could be that cairo upgrade broke OO?
Anyone else?
cheers
Fede

gradgrind · 2007-07-05 05:28:48

Exactly what doesn't work? I just started it up and did a little edit. It seemed fine.

mangus · 2007-07-05 08:28:46

gradgrind wrote:

Exactly what doesn't work? I just started it up and did a little edit. It seemed fine.

when I try to open a file (.ods - or .xls) it simply freeze at startup and I have to kill soffice.bin
creating a new file , editing and reopen it , works.
Note that the files that I can't open are made with not so old version of OO of my previous linux installation.
I downgrade cairo but It doesn't help.. permission of the file are correct, thought.
dunno what to do...:(

Fede

[SOLVED] my /etc/hosts was messed up and this caused OO to crash (and cups too).
strange that this happens only with old files.. sorry for the noise

Last edited by mangus (2007-07-06 12:16:55)

xaw · 2007-09-24 22:11:51

@Pholsten: Your suggestion seems to work for me as well. :-) I had synced to the latest snapshot of core & extra and still had the problem mentioned here before rolling back cairo and pycairo

Last edited by xaw (2007-09-24 22:12:17)

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