I have had a very strange and intermittent problem with XXE for a while now, starting from around the time I upgraded to Kubuntu 9.10 about 6 weeks ago. It is difficult to be precise about it, because it has been very intermittent.
What happens is that XXE starts up correctly, but when a document is loaded it appears to load the document (a message is displayed in the status bar), but the window freezes before the document is actually displayed. After that the window is usually dead (resize it, and it is not properly refreshed, nothing works) and the only thing that can be done is to kill the process. Occasionally, clicking here and there appears to provoke some action, and the window contents are drawn, but after that the application is usually (but not always) very unresponsive. Although the problem is intermittent, it appears to occur in waves (several hours maybe, where it happens repeatedly and I can't get anything done) and then mysteriously goes away. Restarting the machine does not seem to have any effect. When the problem is there it makes no difference whether I start a local copy of XXE or use the Java webstart version installed on our network. If I start XXE from a terminal window, no messages are output. The Java process is not using large amounts of either memory or processor time. Increasing the memory parameters in the start-up command has no effect. I have not noticed any problems with any of the other Java programs I use. Today, after a really bad few hours, I started trying different versions of Java. I was running 1.6.0.16. I uninstalled and re-installed, and for some reason ended up with 1.6.0.15 - no improvement. I then installed 1.6.0.10, and (cross fingers) so far, it seems to be working OK. Any ideas? Anybody else experienced anything similar? Kevin Flynn Escenic AS Oslo, Norway
