OpenOffice crashes compiz on F 14

[Harish Pillay]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:29 AM, Kirk Lowery
<empirical.humanist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Harish Pillay <harish.pillay at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> William -
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:15 AM, William Henry <whenry at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > My OO just doesn't start any more on F14. I have compiz and it's not
>> > crashing but my OO won't launch. I noticed this just before the
>> > Christmas
>> > break.
>>
>> I've had a similar issue. I've filed in BZ -
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=666603
>>
>> The issue is, atleast in my case, a residual file in /tmp that has the
>> following
>> initial letters: OSL_PIPE followed by a series of numbers.  Deleting that
>> file
>> then allowed for oo.o to start properly.
>
> This is not my issue. The problem is when I enter compiz. Then when I try to
> open any openoffice application, X-Windows freezes.

I tracked my issue with strace as follows:

strace ooimpress file.odp

perhaps if you could do that from a terminal, we can narrow this down.

Harish