Re: Open Office Problem

[David G. Miller (aka DaveAtFraud)]

Mogens Kjaer  wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
> > > Open Office has suddenly decided that the file open dialogue box should 
> > > freeze the program.
>
> When it is frozen, can you open a terminal window and
> issue the following commands:
>
> df
> mount
>
> Do they hang as well?
>
> Mogens

I didn't try either of those but the system seemed to be normal 
otherwise.  That is, I was able to use Firefox for web access, 
Thunderbird for reading e-mail, etc.  I doubt if the disk was frozen 
since my work-around worked: double click on a file icon, edit the file, 
save the file.

ulrich  wrote:
> Are you sure that there not another pop-up active, which you need to
> acknowledge first.
> I had this serveral times that on another desktop you need to acknowledge
> something. OO only seems to be frozen...
> For some reason active pop-up don't show up on top.
>
> ulrich

Absolutely sure.  Before rebooting the system I restarted X (I normally 
run systems at run level 3 and then use startx from the command line to 
bring up the X window system).  After starting X from a command prompt, 
I was able to recreate the problem.  Also, when starting OO, I was 
always seeing the "splash" screen.

Since an X restart didn't solve the problem but a reboot did, I'm 
thinking there is a service that OO utilizes that had stalled or died.  
I have no idea which one.

Cheers,
Dave

Open Office Problem

[Tim]

Mogens Kjaer
> > When it is frozen, can you open a terminal window and
> > issue the following commands:
> >
> > df
> > mount
> >
> > Do they hang as well?

David G. Miller:
> I didn't try either of those but the system seemed to be normal 
> otherwise.  That is, I was able to use Firefox for web access, 
> Thunderbird for reading e-mail, etc.  I doubt if the disk was frozen 
> since my work-around worked: double click on a file icon, edit the file, 
> save the file.

If you had network mount points in your homespace, and they weren't
currently available, you'd hang for a long time on anything trying to
read the directory of your homespace (such as the file requester in OO,
listing the homespace, checking the free space on drives, etc.).  But
applications which don't do such things, such as Firefox and
Thunderbird, would work fine.