Hi there.... I received this note about sudden death of StarOffice, about which we had a thread about a month ago. It is a problem of fonts and the followin message shows a way to narrow down and possibly resolve the problem.
Have fun Pf From: Dietz Proepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Staroffice crashing Hi, sorry for mailing this to you but I am no member to debian-users and did not see a quick way to drop a note there. Therefore the direct mail. regardin' the staroffice crash you posted to debian-users a month ago, I ran into the same trouble. Some digging revealed quickly that it had to do s.t. with the font management (go to Options/Editor/Fonts -> *kaboom*). Also spadmin shows that behaviour, trying to print a test page with a garbled system yields a crash. But in contrast to soffice spadmin can be easily straced. And now for the interesting bit ,). That traces reveal that spadmin tries to open several Type1 fonts that still exist in fonts.dir and fonts.scale. Removing them gave me back a working Star Office. Due to the fact taht I am far from being a font or X wizzard I assume that there's a better way than hand-editing but it works so who cares ;). If you feel that others might be interested in this too, feel free to forward that mail to debian-users. kindest regards Dietz Proepper -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | ik5pvx | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.dyndns.org Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.4.3 #1 Sat Mar 31 14:03:42 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
