OpenOffice Calc biting the dust

Robin Laing Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Mon Apr 16 15:42:25 UTC 2007


Andy Green wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> 
>> One thing that is hard to swallow is a spreadsheet that just winks out
>> of existence in the middle of last minute tax prep. I'll be entering a
>> column of data then it just winks out. Recovery process starts me almost
>> at the beginning. Anyone else experiencing this? It's a little bit
>> un-nerving. Ric
> 
> I think there may be some kind of bug in a lib somewhere at the moment. 
>  My wife is seeing Firefox dying after some random time on her machine. 
>  I ran it under gdb and when it died it was due to an X error
> 
> The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
> This probably reflects a bug in the program.
> The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
>   (Details: serial 8810105 error_code 1 request_code 0 minor_code 0)
>   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
>    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
>    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
>    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
>    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
> function.)
> 
> Googling on that turned up a thread blaming problems with GTK for 
> similar behaviour... which might explain why Firefox and OO could both 
> go shaky.  Or it could be something else entirely.
> 
> I updated her gtk with the one from development but the problem persists.
> 
> -Andy
> 

Hum, interesting about the Firefox issue as my Firefox and Thunderbird 
have been doing the same thing recently.  Is there a bug reported on this?

As for the calc disappearing, try the official OOo from OpenOffice.org 
as there are some cone changes done to Calc.  The official version runs 
much faster IMHO with the macros that I run.


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