On Thu October 27 2005 10:13, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> CPH,
>
> I've called the program using the command line and the menu buttons, both
> remotely and on the actual machine, all to no avail.
>
> The system is a fully up to date version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
> (Update 2) with the "extras" packages installed.
>
> It is a brand new HP xw4300 with 2GB memory and a P4 650.
>
> Any help you can give me will be much appreciated.
>
> Andrew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: CPHennessy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 26 October 2005 22:03
> To: users@openoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [users] Installation problems on RH 8 and RHEL 4
>
> On Tue October 25 2005 13:57, Cannon, Andrew wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I've downloaded and unpacked the rpms for OOov2.0 and followed the
> > installation instructions. The only problem is, I cannot get
> > OpenOffice.org v2.0 to work. I'm using a remote desktop under XThinPro
> > v6.7. I have to use the command line to start the program, so I type
> > "openoffice.org-2.0 -calc" to (obviously) start calc, and nothing
> > happens.
> >
> > Opening another terminal and seeing if the program is running reveals a
> > zombie process.
>
> If possible it is a good idea to see if you can run OOo on a "real" screen
> for
> this machine rather than on a remote desktop. At least in this way it may
> narrow down the problem to be a DISPLAY issue rather than a coding issue.
Hi Andrew,
Try putting strace before the call to soffice to see what it is trying to
do. Also maybe the RH forums/mailing lists can help you ?
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