Now that is interesting. i do have a package openoffice.org-gcj which is not installed. If I install it, I first hit problems with having enabled the "proposed" version 2.0.3 since this package only suggests - so first the lengthy process of removing it, and the language files, and then removing the proposed repo, then installing the openoffice packages again with the version (from security in fact).
If there is a better way to downgrade the whole set of packages (taking into account that openoffice.org is just a metapackage for all of its components), please let me know. I then installed openoffice.org-gcj, and started up the database wizard - on dapper, on a machine with an nvidia card and driver. Ho hum - slooooow again... Create a new database, go through the wizard, click on tables, POP! Its dead, even with openoffice.org-gcj installed. Having killed the hung version, I then started it again with a writer document (safe), set the jvm to the sun jre again, and restarted it. Cue speed increase... Create Database, go through wizard, click on tables, and after a 30 second pause - no crash. I would say that is fairly conclusive that either gcj is at fault, or the way that openoffice handles it. -- Openoffice on Ubuntu x86 crashes when tables clicked https://launchpad.net/bugs/60979 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
