openoffice writer not working

[Caolan McNamara]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 08:00 -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- Caolan McNamara <caolanm at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 05:52 -0700, Antonio Olivares
> > wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > > 
> > >   Running rawhide.  Openoffice writer bails out
> > when
> > > typing something.  It just bails out and when it
> > tries
> > > to start up, it asks if you want to recover the
> > 
> > Try running it from a gnome-terminal where you have
> > export SAL_IGNOREXERRORS=1 and see if it makes a
> > difference, if it does
> > then this is some varient of 
> >
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243811
> > 
> > C.

So we have some problem with OOo vs cairo. The F-7 update-testing
cairo-1.4.8 will also trigger OOo to die after some sequence of e.g.
right clicking. So if you have problems rolling cairo back to 1.4.4
should avoid the problem.

C.