Open Office Problem

[ulrich]

David G. Miller wrote:

> Open Office has suddenly decided that the file open dialogue box should
> freeze the program.  Since it's been several days since the last OO
> update and I've edited several files in the mean time, I'm guessing
> something else has broken and is causing the problem.  I just have no
> idea of what that would be.
> 
> To reproduce the problem, start an OO app from the start menu and select
> file -> open.  OO freezes solid and only a close window request followed
> by a forced quit exits the program.  Double clicking on a file (e.g.,
> the file I originally wanted to edit) works just fine and starts OO with
> the selected file.  I'm just unable to use the file open dialogue to
> select a file from with an OO app.  The only output from X that relates
> to the problem is the kill requests are printed.  Nothing in any log file.
> 
> Has anyone else seen this?  Any hints as to how to fix it short of a
> reboot?  Just restarting X didn't fix it but a reboot did.  I'm running
> FC6 with all updates applied.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave
> 
 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