Open Office Problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 27 November 2006 14:38, ulrich wrote:
> David G. Miller wrote:
> > Open Office has suddenly decided that the file open dialogue box should
> > freeze the program.  Since it's been several days since the last OO
> > update and I've edited several files in the mean time, I'm guessing
> > something else has broken and is causing the problem.  I just have no
> > idea of what that would be.
> >
> > To reproduce the problem, start an OO app from the start menu and select
> > file -> open.  OO freezes solid and only a close window request followed
> > by a forced quit exits the program.  Double clicking on a file (e.g.,
> > the file I originally wanted to edit) works just fine and starts OO with
> > the selected file.  I'm just unable to use the file open dialogue to
> > select a file from with an OO app.  The only output from X that relates
> > to the problem is the kill requests are printed.  Nothing in any log
> > file.
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?  Any hints as to how to fix it short of a
> > reboot?  Just restarting X didn't fix it but a reboot did.  I'm running
> > FC6 with all updates applied.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
>
>  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.
>
I've been fooled by that as well - with a dialogue box awaiting a response, 
but hiding behind the main window, so I didn't realise it was there.  It was 
only after I'd forceably killed one or two applications that I remembered to 
always check that first.

Anne
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