Cameron MacDonald wrote:
Rosemary McGillicuddy wrote:
I can't open OpenOffice to open attachments in emails, or from the
desk top icon, or system menu.
I get this message. "Either another instance of OO is accessing your
personal settings or your personal settings are locked. Simultaneous
... make sure your user rosemary closes OO on host coleraine."
I don't have it open and don't know how to fix this. Can anyone help
please, thanks.
The first thing I would do is to double check (if you already haven't)
by running from a command line, as root, the command "top" (no quotes)
to give you what processes are using resources, and what PIDs they have
(process ID) in case you need to kill one.
Or you could run "ps -A" to see all the processes. Either way, if OO is
running without you knowing it, you can kill it: "kill <PID>".
I had this problem with Kaffeine-even after I had fully quit the
application.
See what you can find.
Cameron
"top" gives me this - I can't see OO there, but maybe something that
conflicts with it?
>Tasks: 85 total, 2 running, 83 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 1.3% us, 2.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 96.4% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem: 483400k total, 403820k used, 79580k free, 15892k buffers
Swap: 506008k total, 0k used, 506008k free, 223836k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
17522 root 15 0 82460 14m 3800 S 1.0 3.1 0:22.66 X
18858 rosemary 18 0 27536 19m 7420 S 0.7 4.1 0:09.29 net_applet
17181 root 16 0 4008 2584 1584 S 0.3 0.5 0:00.97 hald
23549 root 16 0 1968 1028 804 R 0.3 0.2 0:00.21 top
1 root 16 0 1536 524 464 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.88 init
2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
3 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:01.44 events/0
4 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.05 khelper
9 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kthread
18 root 20 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid
90 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.06 kblockd/0
131 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
132 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush
134 root 19 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0
133 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0
729 root 18 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod
812 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.03 kjournald
[root@(none) rosemary]#
"ps -A" gives me a long list, again no obvious OO, but I wonder about
the ksoftirqd/0?
I'd hate to have to go to windows simply for word processing! Kind of a
point of honour, in that it's okay for scanning as that's not supported
<grin>.
--
Rosemary
Registered Linux User # 386597 http://counter.li.org
"A friend may well be a masterpiece of nature". Emerson
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