Hello Phil, in the night I responded to Mr. Proulx at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Then, after sleeping five hours, the magic wane you guys sent me or
maybe my own did its deed. Yes, this morning my OO 2.2 opened as if
nothing had ever occurred. I cannot explain it except that I did a
control S on each file that would not save. Then I did a full shut down
twice. Nothing more. Apparently, the content in memory/cache was
unloaded once the saved files released the pressure on the sys.
Personally, I am not sophisticated with regard to tech work, so I have
to accept the magic bit. Not really. But I still cannot explain what
truly solved the riddle. If persistence had not forced me to submit a
bug report, I would not have used my questioning capability to seek a
solution that did in turn work.
Kenneth
Philip Rowlands wrote:
On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote:
Attn: [email protected]
Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this
happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in
another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to
spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said,
"before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal
mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself,
`/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2'
what causes this?"
What version of coreutils to you have installed? The "bug" here is the
misleading error message from mv as
/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of
/root/.openoffice.org2
As the Ubuntu bug you referenced points out, previous versions of mv
would sometimes mistakenly fail with "cannot overwrite directory" (see
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00086.html).
Unfortunately, this "cannot overwrite" error message is disguising the
real reason the mv command may be failing. Nonetheless, I'm confident
that, even with a newer version of coreutils, your problems with
OpenOffice freezing won't be resolved. As Bob points out in another
reply the best people to ask about OpenOffice issues are OpenOffice
support folks:
http://support.openoffice.org/
Cheers,
Phil
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