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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 866

OpenOffice crash with dual-head presentation in Impress

Hi, I have an issue with Impress, I hoped that version 3.2 would fix it but it's not so. Now I think it is a problem of my system.
I have a dual head setup with an ATI card (Catalyst 10.5, xorg-server 1.7.6); I start a slide show with Impress on the secondary display, then when I press esc to return to Impress the program crashes. Starting it from the console I get this error messages:

$ SAL_SYNCHRONIZE=1 soffice -impress

** (soffice:3129): WARNING **: Inhibit method failed

** (soffice:3129): WARNING **: Inhibit problem : The name org.gnome.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files

** (soffice:3129): WARNING **: UnInhibit method failed

** (soffice:3129): WARNING **: Inhibit problem : The name org.gnome.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files
X-Error: RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)
        Major opcode: 155
        Minor opcode: 7
        Resource ID:  0x1800911
        Serial No:    40909 (40909)

I think the warnings are harmless, and that X-Error is the problem. I don't know if I should file a bug upstream, I searched OO bug tracker but I didn't find anything.
Thank you.

ngoonee

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From: Between Thailand and Singapore

Registered: 2009-03-17

Posts: 7,356

Re: OpenOffice crash with dual-head presentation in Impress

I'm having the same thing as you, did you file a bug?

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pablox

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Registered: 2008-05-14

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Re: OpenOffice crash with dual-head presentation in Impress

Hey, I just discovered the same problem here... I believe it's exclusive with oo, and go-oo doesn't have it.

EDIT:
According to this, it has to do with gtk, a possibly workaround (at least for me) is running this first:

export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="soffice"

Then openoffice doesn't crash when you close the presentation :). Hope it helps until we find a real solution :).

PS.- The warning still appears though.

Last edited by pablox (2010-06-09 23:13:44)

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snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 866

Re: OpenOffice crash with dual-head presentation in Impress

I didn't file a bug yet, I was wondering if it is a problem of my configuration or something upstream. Tomorrow I wil try the solution proposed by pablox (btw, thanks!)...

snack

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From: Italy

Registered: 2009-01-13

Posts: 866

Re: OpenOffice crash with dual-head presentation in Impress

I tried to set "export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="soffice"" but it didn't help. I also noticed that the crash is quite random, sometimes the presentation closes correctly but most of the times the problem shows up.
Now I'm going to try with go-openoffice...

Edit: go-oo seems fine, even without setting OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP="soffice". So I think the problem is solved! By the way, what is the difference between oo and go-oo which makes the latter work?

Last edited by snack (2010-06-14 09:15:40)

jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 714

Re: OpenOffice crash with dual-head presentation in Impress

same problem here, not sure what the problem is, but it's fixed in openoffice-base-devel

Last edited by jelly (2010-06-14 16:01:21)

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