OpenOffice Calc biting the dust

[Andy Green]

Ric Moore wrote:

> One thing that is hard to swallow is a spreadsheet that just winks out
> of existence in the middle of last minute tax prep. I'll be entering a
> column of data then it just winks out. Recovery process starts me almost
> at the beginning. Anyone else experiencing this? It's a little bit
> un-nerving. Ric

I think there may be some kind of bug in a lib somewhere at the moment. 
  My wife is seeing Firefox dying after some random time on her machine. 
  I ran it under gdb and when it died it was due to an X error

The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadRequest (invalid request code or no such operation)'.
   (Details: serial 8810105 error_code 1 request_code 0 minor_code 0)
   (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
    that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
    To debug your program, run it with the --sync command line
    option to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
    backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() 
function.)

Googling on that turned up a thread blaming problems with GTK for 
similar behaviour... which might explain why Firefox and OO could both 
go shaky.  Or it could be something else entirely.

I updated her gtk with the one from development but the problem persists.

-Andy