First has anyone else had this problem? This seems to be inherit to OO because I had it happen before while using RH. Crashes happens when saving or reading but editing seems to be fine. Previously (months ago) it was "Do you want to recover file" and each time I saved it I would get a crash, and a sadistic event circle was created. Recently thou, the program just terminates and does a core dumps.
The event - updated from openoffice-1.0.1-3mdk to openoffice-1.0.1-5mdk. The problem frequent crashes, almost every time. Core was generated by `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin private:factory/swriter '. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x40509afd in ?? () Core was generated by `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin private:factory/swriter '. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x40509afd in ?? () Core was generated by `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin private:factory/swriter '. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. #0 0x40baf3d1 in ?? () Core was generated by `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin private:factory/swriter '. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x400e564a in ?? () Core was generated by `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin private:factory/swriter '. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. #0 0x40508afd in ?? () Most errors occurred during a save, the damn thing tossed 15 minutes of work. :( I then tried to revert back to openoffice-1.0.1-3mdk by removing 5mdk and reinstalling a copy of 3mdk. (Local known working copy.) Btw, here is where local caching of rpmdrake would come in handy. I did a simple test case: Start OO from panel link. Typing in 'test' and saving as 'test'. Crash. I then remembered how I "fixed" this problem before. - Made a copy of OO's /user directory from ~/.openoffice. - Erase default directory ~/.openoffice. - Uninstalled openoffice-1.0.1-3mdk - Re-installed openoffice-1.0.1-3mdk (it worked before) - Started oowriter to create a new ~/.openoffice/user directory - Duplicated the above test case. Works. - Closed OO - Copied everything EXCEPT the /config directory from the copy to the newly created OO's /user directory (*see note) - Started oowriter - Duplicated the above test case. Works. - Tried to access a letter template w/watermark I created. Says initializing templates for the first time (this did not occur during after an update). Template loads. Do above test case with template. Works. OO now seems to be happy again. * I learned that there is something in the /config directory which causes this behavior because previously when I just copied the whole /user directory the problem remained. My main concern was the /template and /gallery directories so I only moved them at first and then slowly deduced not to include /config. I don't have the time to methodically test the permutations but will if it occurs again. Gabriel
