Re: Problem with Debian Testing -- Again, Ctrl-c the culprit?

2005-04-29 Thread Steve C. Thompson
Rene, > Did you try killall soffice.bin / killall -9 soffice.bin? Running `killall -9 soffice.bin' fixed my problem. Thanks! Steve On Apr 29 22:36PM, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > Steve C. Thompson wrote: > > I don't know how to fix this. In the past I've tried to remove the > > ~/.openof

Re: Problem with Debian Testing -- Again, Ctrl-c the culprit?

2005-04-29 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Steve C. Thompson wrote: > I don't know how to fix this. In the past I've tried to remove the > ~/.openoffice directory and all that (see > http://elsteve.com/usageNotes.html#015b for more), but the only thing > that has solved this is time. OOo seems to reset itself and work the > next time

Problem with Debian Testing -- Again, Ctrl-c the culprit?

2005-04-26 Thread Steve C. Thompson
Group, I've sent this problem to the list in the past, and have included a previous message below. I'm running OOo 1.1.3 on Debian GNU/Linux (testing). When I try to open OOo, by issuing openoffice from a terminal, it get: # openoffice OpenOffice.org lockfile found (/home/steve/.openoffice

Re: Problem with Debian Testing [solved]

2005-03-21 Thread Steve C. Thompson
Group, Today my (testing) system is upgraded from OOo 1.1.2 to OOo 1.1.3. I ran rm -f ~/.sversionrc ; rm -fr ~/.openoffice ; openoffice and OOo works! Thanks to Debian maintainers. However, I had this problem before: OOo works fine one day, fails the next, in two weeks it works again. I don't kno

Re: Problem with Debian Testing [./soffice as root]

2005-03-18 Thread Steve C. Thompson
Group, I just found out that running ./soffice in ~/.openoffice will open OOo as desired. However, I must run this program as root! ~/.openoffice/soffice links to /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice. Any ideas why this is the case? Why would OOo require root to run? It isn't good to run as roo

Problem with Debian Testing

2005-03-18 Thread Steve C. Thompson
Hello Group, I'm sure this problem has been solved... I'm running Debian testing (sarge). OOo has worked fine in the past. Recently when trying to start OOo I get something like ``OpenOffice.org lockfile found'' and the program won't start. I remove ~/.sversionrc and ~/.openoffice, run again, i