OpenOffice Problems

[CaptainCool]

I've been having a little problem with open office, everytime I go to open a document or I try to open any open office program it always hangs and I have to kill it.
I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it but the same thing still happens.
Sometimes the logo you get when it first starts up gets stuck on the screen and even if I kill it, it still won't go away, so I have to log out and back in or reboot.

Also I did mess with the Linux Kernal Configurator a couple days ago by changing the processor family. I was thinking maybe that had something to do with it but I'm not sure.

Any help would be appreciated.

[voidmain]

I had a somewhat similar problem (but not exactly) after forcing an install of an older version of the libstdc++ library. Do you get any error messages when you start one of the OO apps from the command line? Try "$ oowriter" and see if there are any error messages. A CTRL-c should kill it if need be.

[ December 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[CaptainCool]

Just tried the command line but still no good, there isn't any error messages either, it just begins to load then it just seems to die.

[voidmain]

That's exactly what mine did. It started to load and  then just died (didn't hang like you said). Did you install any other software besides that kernel from the last time you knew it worked?  For instance, the thing that screwed mine up was installing "Cinelerra" because it required the "libstdc++3". OO doesn't like that library. Do a:

$ rpm -qa | grep libstdc++3

and see if you have it installed. If you do that is probably causing your problem. OO requires "libstdc++-3.2". Check and make sure that one is installed:

$ rpm -qa | grep libstdc++-3

Now if you need both libraries I can tell you a way to make it work but lets wait and see what you have.

[ December 13, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Calum]

i had that problem also, but my laptop is in for repairs so i will shut up now and pay attention to what comes of this thread. watching with interest.

[CaptainCool]

OK I did the rpm -qa | grep libstdc++3 and nothing came up so I assume that means that it's not installed. Now I went to the rpm installer and did a quick search for that libstdc++-3.2 and these two packages poped up:

libstdc++2.10-devel-2.96-0.80mdk
and
libstdc++5-static-devel-3.2-1mdk

Would the second one be the right one to install?

 

quote:Did you install any other software besides that kernel from the last time you knew it worked?  

I was messing with wine and I installed this rpm called mesa. would that have anything to do with it?

[ December 13, 2002: Message edited by: CaptainCool ]

[voidmain]

Shit, I thought you had Red Hat. Never mind and forget everything I said. I have no idea what Mandrake uses for libraries and how OO was built for it. Sorry about that. Please, please, please list distribution and version, and application version when starting a help thread. It would save a heck of a lot of time. Could someone please put a disclaimer somewhere when you post a new message in the Linux/UNIX forum?

Still the only thing I can figure is you must have installed (or removed or changed versions) some libraries that OO requires to run.