neddie Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) Ever since I upgraded to 2008.1 last week (I know, cutting edge), OpenOffice Calc crashes repeatedly, often within a few clicks of starting it back up again. It's completely unusable. Any idea why this might be? Even just scrolling the window with an empty document causes it to crash! I tried starting it from the command line but it just complained about missing java runtime (I have Sun's 1.6 installed from the repos) but no other information. If it's a problem with Calc itself, can I downgrade to the version I was using before with 2007.1 ? Edited October 15, 2008 by neddie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 I had the same problem, but I was able to find the answer in the OpenOffice forums. For some reason, at this moment, I cannot access those forums, and obviously I cannot remember what I did. :woops: I do remember that it was something easy to take care of! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 Have you tried removing the config file from your home folder already? I once had the same hapening when using OOwriter and after removing the config-file, it worked well again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kieth Posted October 13, 2008 Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 I found something about themes making OO crash. Maybe this is your problem. http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/for...f=16&t=2032 and http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=317077 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2008 It's a fresh install so my .ooo-2.0 directory was new. I tried renaming it and restarting Calc, but it still crashed a few seconds later. About the themes, those posts just mention Gnome, but I'm using KDE. I haven't got a particularly dark theme but I could try and select another one to see if that helps... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Very weird. I selected the Mandriva theme (which wiped out my desktop background and other things), and now OpenOffice doesn't crash. Very odd indeed. It's not like I'd scoured kde-look for some obscure combination of themes and theme managers etc, I'd just changed a few icons and font sizes and window decorations (from the ones already installed in Mandriva 2008.1). But apparently that was enough to upset openoffice. Guess I should be even less adventurous when customising the look of my system... :unsure: So solved I guess but now I don't like my icons or font sizes... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 15, 2008 Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 Check again if changing the look causes it to crash. If yes, you might consider filing a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neddie Posted October 15, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2008 You really think the Mandriva guys, or the KDE guys, or the OpenOffice guys would be interested in solving a bug from 2008.1 ? :unsure: Anyway I can't remember exactly what I'd changed or what to, and when I changed the theme to "Mandriva" it reset everything. I've twiddled with a few things but OpenOffice still works (for now) - so alas I can't put my finger on what broke it. But certainly something to do with the colours / fonts / window decorations. On the plus side things are looking ok and running ok now so fingers crossed and problem solved! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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