Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 11:44, Dick Mazierski wrote: What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! I can only agree Dick. It's like the missing RPMs on the powerpack thing (dare I bring it up again?). Totally OK for the problem to exist, but the silence is unforgivable. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Tom, KOrganizer tells me that today is Corpus Christi day. You didn't sneak into my computer and put it there, did you?! ;-) Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 09:21 pm, shane wrote: On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! they did, it is called openoffice, and is on your 8.2 cds :) Or you can get a newer 8.2 version here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i586.rpm while you're there, get the freetype2-2.0.9-3plf rpm also. -- Tom BrinkmanCorpus Christi, Texas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Thursday 23 May 2002 05:41 am, Tom Brinkman opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: Or you can get a newer 8.2 version here http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/mandrake8.2/OpenOffice.org-1.0-3mdk.i 586.rpm while you're there, get the freetype2-2.0.9-3plf rpm also. the full 1.0 for mandrake? as good as installed! thanks! -- It is increasingly obvious that our techknowledgy is outpacing our humanity. -Einstein shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
As there seem to be a lot of people interested in this issue and there has been another thread running on expert which is relevant, here is the info posted there. I have tried it this way and it seems to work! Sorry for the duplication for those who lurk on both lists. HTH Brian 1. Uninstall SO6 2. Look for two files named .sversionrc and .user60.rdb (note the leading dots!) and delete them if you find them (I found them in my home path) 3. In an xterm window, log in as root (su) 4. Locate the setup file (in my 8.2 installation, this was located in /usr/lib/office60_en) 5. type ./setup to start the setup script 6. select the local (200MB) installation. Change the path for this installation to /usr/local/staroffice6.0 7. complete the installation (btw, if you don't have a Java runtime environment installed, you can do so by clicking the INSTALL button on the JRE screen) 8. exit su mode 9. execute the setup script again as a local user, and this time select network installation. 10. I noted in my installation that I had to browse to find the JRE that had just been installed; other than that there were no more problems. Good luck! raffaele Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Jim Dawson wrote: I suspect that it may be the security level that LM is configured for. -Original Message- From: Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22 May 2002 15:29:26 +1000 Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 03:24, Jim Dawson wrote: I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup directories) to directories that I have rights to and it seems to work fine now. Sounds like you've found the problem Jim. I might install SO again and give it a try, although what I can't understand is that it worked fine when I first installed and for at least a few days of regular use. Once the can't save crash started though it wouldn't save anything. Makes me a little dubious if the default install can expose the user to that kind of garbage! ...and OpenOffice seems to do everything that SO does from what I've seen so far. Anyway, for the hell of it, I'll reinstall and have a look at all those directories it references before trying to open anything. Dimitris sent me a script to fix up some fonts problems which may also help, but I suspect that's not THE problem causing the crashes. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 06:44 pm, Dick Mazierski opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: What I can't understand is, with all the complaints about Star Office 6.0, why Sun Microsystems or Mandrake have not stepped in and offered a solution to the problem. This attitude will be the downfall of Linux!!! they did, it is called openoffice, and is on your 8.2 cds :) -- There are 3 kinds of people: those who can count and those who can't. shane Profile at: http://dmoz.org/profiles/shen.html Proud to be a DMOZ editor since 10-98 Mandrake Users Club Member http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/club/ Registered linux user #101606 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the
default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have
rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup
directories) to directories that I have rights to and it seems to work fine now.
-Original Message-
From: Dimitris Ioannou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 10:07:13 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Brian hello my friend,
If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but if
you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can
send it to you, a small batch file that you put it one
level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be
installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign
commands automatically, also it creates a
fonts.dir.txt file that the Xfont server can use to
assign the fonts to itself. Using this and following
the method I pointed previously you can get SO6 to run
without no problems and with Winfonts installed and
working perfectly well. I can assure it's not buggy at
all. I have given it very hard times writing my wife's
documents(she's a journalist) and faced no problem at
all, {I had to transform them later in M$Word format,
put graphics in it, many pages,etc...}, so trust me
it's worth it. After getting it to work its rock solid
and stable as no other. If you want details on how to
I'm always available.
Cheers
Dimitris
--- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] έγραψε:
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote:
Brian and Jim
Please tell us if you have installed any
additional
fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go
to
the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy
fonts.dir
and paste it to the Staroffice directory
ovewriting
its' own one. Then things should work OK
hopefully.
Also Jim check the permissions of the file where
you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I
mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not
change the permissions and that should do it. I
had
the same problem with staroffice. In my case it
would
start at all giving me segmentation fault. But
when I
did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I
even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the
staroffice's directory and I am able to write and
print with them.
Cheers
Dimitris
P.S. Let us know for any progress
Dimitris,
Too late on my system. SO6 is gone gone gone. I
figure, why use a
buggy commercial app when there's an open source
alternative that works
better. So far I can't fault OpenOffice 1.0, and
even the pre-release
that was on my distro CDs worked better than SO6.
The one time so far that I have managed to crash
OpenOffice (with some
pretty strange screwing around BTW), it restarted,
restored the document
to right where it was and continued. If that's as
bad as it gets, I
have no problem staying with the open version.
thanks for the response though. I posted when I
first had the SO6
problem and got nothing back. Maybe it would still
be on my system if
you'd been around then.
cheers
Brian
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Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 03:24, Jim Dawson wrote: I think I found the problem with StarOffice crashing on saves. It seems that the default configuration specifies directories that either don't exist or I don't have rights to. I changed all the directories (particularly the temp and backup directories) to directories that I have rights to and it seems to work fine now. Sounds like you've found the problem Jim. I might install SO again and give it a try, although what I can't understand is that it worked fine when I first installed and for at least a few days of regular use. Once the can't save crash started though it wouldn't save anything. Makes me a little dubious if the default install can expose the user to that kind of garbage! ...and OpenOffice seems to do everything that SO does from what I've seen so far. Anyway, for the hell of it, I'll reinstall and have a look at all those directories it references before trying to open anything. Dimitris sent me a script to fix up some fonts problems which may also help, but I suspect that's not THE problem causing the crashes. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:03, Jim Dawson wrote: (This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the list.) Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. Jim, Same thing happened to me. Once I got that message I could never get Start Office to save again. Installed Open Office instead and haven't looked back. Seems to me that SO6 is buggy bigtime! Let us know if you get a resolution though. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Brian and Jim Please tell us if you have installed any additional fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go to the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy fonts.dir and paste it to the Staroffice directory ovewriting its' own one. Then things should work OK hopefully. Also Jim check the permissions of the file where you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not change the permissions and that should do it. I had the same problem with staroffice. In my case it would start at all giving me segmentation fault. But when I did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the staroffice's directory and I am able to write and print with them. Cheers Dimitris P.S. Let us know for any progress --- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 01:03, Jim Dawson wrote: (This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the list.) Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. Jim, Same thing happened to me. Once I got that message I could never get Start Office to save again. Installed Open Office instead and haven't looked back. Seems to me that SO6 is buggy bigtime! Let us know if you get a resolution though. Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote: Brian and Jim Please tell us if you have installed any additional fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go to the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy fonts.dir and paste it to the Staroffice directory ovewriting its' own one. Then things should work OK hopefully. Also Jim check the permissions of the file where you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not change the permissions and that should do it. I had the same problem with staroffice. In my case it would start at all giving me segmentation fault. But when I did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the staroffice's directory and I am able to write and print with them. Cheers Dimitris P.S. Let us know for any progress Dimitris, Too late on my system. SO6 is gone gone gone. I figure, why use a buggy commercial app when there's an open source alternative that works better. So far I can't fault OpenOffice 1.0, and even the pre-release that was on my distro CDs worked better than SO6. The one time so far that I have managed to crash OpenOffice (with some pretty strange screwing around BTW), it restarted, restored the document to right where it was and continued. If that's as bad as it gets, I have no problem staying with the open version. thanks for the response though. I posted when I first had the SO6 problem and got nothing back. Maybe it would still be on my system if you'd been around then. cheers Brian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
Brian hello my friend,
If you insist on keeping OpenOffice, that's OK, but if
you want to give SO 6 another try,I have and I can
send it to you, a small batch file that you put it one
level up from the dir where you have new fonts to be
installed in X and executes the mkfontdir and assign
commands automatically, also it creates a
fonts.dir.txt file that the Xfont server can use to
assign the fonts to itself. Using this and following
the method I pointed previously you can get SO6 to run
without no problems and with Winfonts installed and
working perfectly well. I can assure it's not buggy at
all. I have given it very hard times writing my wife's
documents(she's a journalist) and faced no problem at
all, {I had to transform them later in M$Word format,
put graphics in it, many pages,etc...}, so trust me
it's worth it. After getting it to work its rock solid
and stable as no other. If you want details on how to
I'm always available.
Cheers
Dimitris
--- Brian Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] :
On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:45, Dimitris Ioannou wrote:
Brian and Jim
Please tell us if you have installed any
additional
fonts in Staroffice's directory. If not still, go
to
the fonts directory of the X-Server and copy
fonts.dir
and paste it to the Staroffice directory
ovewriting
its' own one. Then things should work OK
hopefully.
Also Jim check the permissions of the file where
you're are trying to save your staroffice files. I
mean do yoy have permission to do it there. If not
change the permissions and that should do it. I
had
the same problem with staroffice. In my case it
would
start at all giving me segmentation fault. But
when I
did what I'm advising you everything works fine. I
even managed to copy windows TTF fonts in the
staroffice's directory and I am able to write and
print with them.
Cheers
Dimitris
P.S. Let us know for any progress
Dimitris,
Too late on my system. SO6 is gone gone gone. I
figure, why use a
buggy commercial app when there's an open source
alternative that works
better. So far I can't fault OpenOffice 1.0, and
even the pre-release
that was on my distro CDs worked better than SO6.
The one time so far that I have managed to crash
OpenOffice (with some
pretty strange screwing around BTW), it restarted,
restored the document
to right where it was and continued. If that's as
bad as it gets, I
have no problem staying with the open version.
thanks for the response though. I posted when I
first had the SO6
problem and got nothing back. Maybe it would still
be on my system if
you'd been around then.
cheers
Brian
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MandrakeSoft?
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[newbie] Can't Save StarOffice Files
Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
(This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the list.) Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Can't save StarOffice Files
On Saturday 18 May 2002 11:03 am, you wrote: (This is a repost, the first copy apparently didn't get posted to the list.) Help! When I try to save StarOffice Writer 6 files, it crashes. First I get a dialog that states: Error saving document Untitled1: Wrong Parameter The operation was started under an invalid parameter Then I get an error that states: An unrecoverable error has occurred All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart Does anyone know what I need to do to be able to save documents? Thanks in advance. Jim: This is just a shot in the dark, but have you tried using Save As? The error message indicates that you're trying to save Untitled1, which is the default file name in SO. -- cmg Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
