[mdlug] Open Office failures

[Dan DeSloover]

Have you tried xkill?
Type
#xkill
and then point and click at the program that you want to die.
BTW are you running an X session logged in as root?


David Lane wrote:
> Well that was the thing: I have used OO for quite some time on both
> Windows and linux and I have not had a problem.
>
> When I did it was because of something else. I have a windows node that
> has both OO and office 2007 and I contenually use OO.
>
> David C. Lane
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> ________________________________
> From: Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at opengroupware.us>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Sent: Wed, February 17, 2010 2:44:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] Open Office failures
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> On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 11:08 -0800, David Lane wrote:
>> I remembered that But I was not sure the one that asked nicely. 
>> Back to Open Office, when it runs into trouble are the JAVA resources an
>> issue?
>
> There is little point in blindly blaming any component.  You'd need to
> use strace, lsof, fuser, and friends to try and narrow down the hung
> component.
>
> On the other hand recent versions of Open Office are very stable - so
> the possibly exists that the problem isn't even Open Office but some
> other component of your stack and the issue is merely manifesting in
> Open Office.  OOo is a large and powerful application that pushes
> underlying libraries and components pretty hard.
>
> If you can repeat the hang run it under gdb and capture the stack.
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Dan DeSloover