Open Office Problem

[David G. Miller]

Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk> wrote:

> David G. Miller wrote:
>> > Open Office has suddenly decided that the file open dialogue box should 
>> > freeze the program. 
>>     
>
> When it is frozen, can you open a terminal window and
> issue the following commands:
>
> df
> mount
>
> Do they hang as well?
>
> Mogens
I didn't try either of those but the system seemed to be normal 
otherwise.  That is, I was able to use Firefox for web access, 
Thunderbird for reading e-mail, etc.  I doubt if the disk was frozen 
since my work-around worked: double click on a file icon, edit the file, 
save the file.

ulrich <captin.kirk at arcor.de> wrote:

>  Are you sure that there not another pop-up active, which you need to
> acknowledge first.
> I had this serveral times that on another desktop you need to acknowledge
> something. OO only seems to be frozen...
> For some reason active pop-up don't show up on top.
>
> ulrich
Absolutely sure.  Before rebooting the system I restarted X (I normally 
run systems at run level 3 and then use startx from the command line to 
bring up the X window system).  After starting X from a command prompt, 
I was able to recreate the problem.  Also, when starting OO, I was 
always seeing the "splash" screen.

Since an X restart didn't solve the problem but a reboot did, I'm 
thinking there is a service that OO utilizes that had stalled or died.  
I have no idea which one.

Cheers,
Dave

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