Strange Open Office

[ff103]

My open office has began to act strangely , If I edit a document in OO, and if I try to use "File"> Save As, Open Office locks up and will only clear after the "terminate" window pops up and then I loose whatever I was working on. I re-installed it but it didn't seem to help this problem. Also if Open Office is open and I use "File">Open, it won't open my home folder so I can choose the document I want to open. Anyone else having strange OO issues? Thanks for any help.

[coffeetime]

No problems here [using Ooo 3.1.1./Build 9420/KDE4]

Try to run Ooo from Terminal:

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soffice
or

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soffice -writer
and post back. Maybe completely removing Ooo [including .ooo3 folder] would help? Is Ooo installed from Synaptic?

[ff103]

O K here is OO from a terminal:
[ray@localhost ~]$ soffice
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

It is installed from synaptic and re-installed today, and as per another post I renamed ooo3 to ooo3_old to try to resolve the "recovery" problem every time it opens, but so far nothing yet. Thanks for the reply.

[nerdful1]

Probably as you were typing this I was running oo with no problems.
However the reason I am running OO in the first place at the moment is a problem in using a Word doc. Hope that is me and not OO.
I'll be posting my OO thing in a bit.
Just wanted to confirm I have no obvious OO problem, and I downloaded it to a fresh box where it never lived less than an hour ago, using the getopenoffice thing.

[AndrzejL]

Hi ff103.

Try this:

Open synaptic package manager and search for package gtk-qt-engine, kde4-style-qtcurve, qtcurve-gtk2.
Mark them for installation (oxygen-molecule will be removed with it)
Reboot
Open KMenu > System > Configuration > Configure Your Desktop
Find and Click Lost and Found > Gtk Styles.
Select style > pick QtCurve
Tick Apply KDE colours to the GTK apps box
Select Icons > Oxygen
Choose to Use current KDE4 font.
Click apply
Reboot or restart X server.

Try opening OpenOffice... See the difference in speed?

Hope this helps.

Andy

EDIT: If You can't find gtk-qt-engine...

[coffeetime]

>ff103

close all apps and try to run getopenoffice again. You'll find it under menu/system/configuration. Maybe something is missing?

[ff103]

Probably should have mentioned, I am still using fully updated KDE3 on this box, I am holding out using KDE4 until the last minute as I use this for my primary work station.(I have kde4 on my laptop)  Also I have re-loaded open office from synaptic yesterday. Still acts the same. Thanks for the help. 

[pinoc]

hi ff103.
the simplest solution:
make sure to not use belnet but for example heanet in the Synaptic repo configuration. Fully update your system and then start getopenoffice. In the titlebar you should see that you use getopenoffice version 1.4. Since you have OO installed you will see a window with the option to completely remove OO. Click on this to remove OO. Then you run getopenoffice again and install a fresh version of OO.
let me know how things go,
regards,
-p.

[ff103]

I use the pclos repository, and the system is completely updated as of last week when there were no more updates. I re-installed Open Office from the Start menu then the "get open office" selection and let it remove and re-install OO. Nothing seems to have changed since the re-install. still wants to "recover" everything and won't "save as" or open a document from the "File" menu.

[coffeetime]

make sure to not use belnet but for example heanet in the Synaptic repo configuration.

As pinoc said, don't use belnet since it's outdated. Which repo do you use? Check in Synaptic.

I re-installed Open Office from the Start menu then the "get open office" selection and let it remove and re-install OO.

Start menu? You mean from this menu?

[ff103]

As per the last post I have always used the pclosusers.com repo. As to the re-install, I used "Start">"System">"Configuration">"Get OpenOffice", and I did get the window that you are referring to and I chose, "install, re install, upgrade."

[pinoc]

have you tried this?

[ff103]

Yes , Thank you i did try that, I found that thread yesterday and tried that before I did the re-install, It didn't have any effect on my install of OO. I have not yet deleted the renamed 0003_old file, but I don't imagine that will make a difference.

[pinoc]

ff103,

two remarks:

1) the problem you describe can have several reasons: OO crashed while your document was loaded; you had a power failure and your document was open in OO but not saved; you have a dual-boot with MS-Windows, edited the document in MS-Windows and did not save it, or did not close OO properly before booting into Linux, or you hybernated MS-Windows with your document opened in OO and then bootet into Linux, or edited the document with another OO-suite which may have created problems for OO, ...
-> delete your folder ~/.ooo3, then copy the document to a new empty folder, and try to open it.
-> try to find any (hidden) backup files and delete them
-> for curiosity, and to find the cause of the problem, you could try to create a new user account, copy your document there and try to open it.

2) there is a difference in getopenoffice between the options "Reinstall" and "Completely remove". I think you did a reinstall but I asked you to try a Complete Remove followed by a fresh install, which is different to a Reinstall.

3) try to open and then save the document in a different office suite and then test if you can open it with OO.

regards,
-p.

[ff103]

ff103,

two remarks:

1) the problem you describe can have several reasons: OO crashed while your document was loaded; you had a power failure and your document was open in OO but not saved; you have a dual-boot with MS-Windows, edited the document in MS-Windows and did not save it, or did not close OO properly before booting into Linux, or you hybernated MS-Windows with your document opened in OO and then bootet into Linux, or edited the document with another OO-suite which may have created problems for OO, ...
-> delete your folder ~/.ooo3, then copy the document to a new empty folder, and try to open it.
-> try to find any (hidden) backup files and delete them
-> for curiosity, and to find the cause of the problem, you could try to create a new user account, copy your document there and try to open it.

2) there is a difference in getopenoffice between the options "Reinstall" and "Completely remove". I think you did a reinstall but I asked you to try a Complete Remove followed by a fresh install, which is different to a Reinstall.

3) try to open and then save the document in a different office suite and then test if you can open it with OO.

regards,
-p.

Thanks for the reply, OO could have crashed some where along the way, I don't remember a crash lately. No power failures I have battery back-up. No dual boot only PCLinux on this box. I deleted the ooo3 folder and the ooo3_old folder and I don't see any backup files, it is strange that when I have an existing document open or create a new document that when I go to File> Save As,  Open Office locks up and I have to wait for the "terminate" screen to exit OO. I'll try the removal and see if that helps. Thanks for the help.  

Edit: I just completely removed open office and re-installed it and there is no change, still acts the same.