[Techtalk] New OpenOffice bails out at 'Welcome to OpenOffice.org" screen

Anne Wainwright anotheranne at fables.co.za
Tue Jul 1 21:27:25 UTC 2008


Akkanna, hello,

I'll check those lunks out and see what I can do, but not today.

Thanks
Anne


On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 09:27:52 -0700
Akkana wrote:

|> Conor Daly writes:
|> > On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:57:24PM +0200 or thereabouts, Wim De
|Smet wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Anne Wainwright
|> > > <anotheranne at fables.co.za> wrote:
|> > > >
|> > > > Subsequently no sign of the blue screen or anything else,
|strace is > > > > showing the program is in a loop, doing what I have
|no idea, because the > > > > same lines come up again and again.
|> > > 
|> > > It doesn't tell me much either. It's hard to make out much from
|system > > > calls unless you see it continuously failing to open some
|specific > > > file or something. Guess we're not so lucky. :-)
|> > 
|> > Typically a program such as OOo will run an idle-loop while
|awaiting input > > from the user.  If OOo thinks it has a window up but
|you're not seeing it, > > it will sit in the idle loop forever waiting
|for an input event.  Not saying > > this is the idle-loop though...
|> 
|> Probably not the same as what you're seeing, but ...
|> I've seen an older version of OOo (2.2.x on Ubuntu feisty)
|> get into a loop trying to do X operations. It's probably not the
|> exact same problem -- in my case sometimes I'd get a window, but it
|> was super-slow and OOo was looping and repeatedly printing errors
|like > 
|> (process:7600): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2240:
|initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this
|function > 
|> (process:7600): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options:
|assertion `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed > 
|> There are several Ubuntu bugs reported on that old issue, with
|> fixes that solved the problem for some people (it had something to
|> do with interaction among several desktop packages like libgtk+,
|> openoffice.org-gnome, and openoffice.org-kde). Some of them:
|> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/127944
|> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/128211
|> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/73444
|> 
|> There might be something in those bugs that gives you a clue or
|> a debugging idea ... unfortunately it doesn't look like anybody
|> ever figured out what the root problem was, they just found
|> combinations of packages that made the problem stop.
|> Still, maybe there's something in there that might give you
|> an idea for how to debug the problem you're seeing.
|> 
|> 	...Akkana
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