Hi Nate,
thanks for your reply.
I also have a nVidia card both at home and at work with, apparently, the latest
drivers... could it be the problem?
Is this then related to OpenOffice or to nVidia??
Cheers,
Martin
----- Original Message ----
From: Nate Pearlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Martin Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: OpenSuSE <opensuse@opensuse.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 3:36:54 PM
Subject: Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice freezes the system
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 06:27 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote:
> Sorry... I use OpenSuSE 10.2 so far.
>
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kevin Dupuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Martin Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: OpenSuSE <opensuse@opensuse.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 3:23:35 AM
> Subject: Re: [opensuse] OpenOffice freezes the system
>
> You didn't mention which version on SUSE you were using, but I agree
> that 10.2 specifically seemed unstable.
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 07:56 -0700, Martin Mielke wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > since some days ago I have to create more documentation as part of my work
> > but I'm experimenting something *very* annoying with OpenOffice, specially
> > the first time it's launched although it might also happen (at random?)
> > after the 2nd or 3rd run: the system completely freezes. Even the keyboard
> > is 100% dead; the caps-lock or num-lock don't even work either, and the
> > only way to get it back to life is by restarting it... so everything is
> > lost and I must start over.
> >
> > These are the OpenOffice packages on my system now (the same applies for
> > the one at home):
> > ---
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice
> > OpenOffice_org-2.2.1-43.1
> > OpenOffice_org-kde-2.2.1-43.1
> > OpenOffice_org-Quickstarter-1.0-514
> > ---
> >
> > This happens with all kind of document formats and for a nerd like me who
> > (almost) uses the 20 desktops it's a good way to learn and use new bad
> > words when everything disappears on this end...
> >
> > Anyway, I also noticed that the recent versions of OpenSuSE are rather more
> > unstable (I'm a SuSE'r since version 5.3 IIRC)... this could be labeled
> > just as a personal perception if I were using OpenSuSE in only one system
> > but I have it installed in more than one "modern" system (i.e. dual-core
> > CPU -both AMD and Intel- , xx GB of RAM, big SATA-2 hard disks, etc) at
> > home and at work...
> >
> > Unfortunately I can't tell you a way to reproduce the problem so please
> > bear with me... and therefore I wanted to ask here if someone has been
> > experimenting such annoyances as well and what, if any, solutions can be
> > applied to get rid of them.
> >
> > As usual, thanks in advance for your time!
> >
There is a bugzilla open on this, 245711.
The work around that has been working for me is, after the machine
starts and I first log in, I launch one of the open office programs. It
doesn't seem to matter which one. Then I go to any one of the menu
items so that the menu appears. After that I leave it running, never
quit.
So far I have not had the machine freeze. The problem seems to effect
systems with nvidia cards the most.
I don't speak for SGI or Novell in this forum. Just relating my
personal experience.
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