Dirk> I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of Dirk> StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works Dirk> fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and Dirk> reinstalled, but no luck. The machine is current potato with lpd and Dirk> magicfilter installed and working.
Julio> What distribution are you using, slink or potato? "Current" Potato (see end of penultimate line above). Julio> It seems that some StarOffice functionalities hang when running over Julio> potato with libc6 2.1. It does work fine with slink (libc6 2.0.7) Julio> indeed. Yes, that's like it. Whenever it attempts to print, it hangs and starts several soffice.bin processes which I have to kill hard (kill -9, sometime even xkill). So then it's now me but rather glibc and staroffice? -- According to the latest figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless.