Subject: Re: Successful install of OpenOffice 1.1 release for linux
To: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: current-users
Date: 10/16/2003 21:21:31
In message <20031017111317.3ec056e5.ggm@apnic.net>, George Michaelson writes:
>On Thu, 16 Oct 2003 10:58:35 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Hmm -- I just upgraded my -current machine to last night's sources 
>> (1.6ZD), and OpenOffice no longer works on that machine.  This is on a 
>> 256M machine.  It displays a bunch of the usual
>> 
>> 	file_image_pagein: Function not implemented
>> 
>> messages, and then does nothing.  But it's in some sort of loop; it's 
>> taking up all available CPU time, according to 'top'.
>> 
>>   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ   RSS WCHAN STAT TT    TIME COMMAND
>> 54047 15648 21820  36  64  0 452 12092 -     R+   p7 1:17.81
>> /usr/home/smb/Open
>> 
>> 
>> 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
>> 
>
>Ok. clearly I was over-optimistic when I said it was ready for wider release. 
>I
>haven't experienced this, but I'm also not running current as of yesterday. Th
>en
>again, at least one other person has this problem with older current.
>
>I'm on: 1.6ZC.
>

It's very weird -- it's now stopped working for me on 1.6.1+ *and* on 
-current.  My best guess is that it has something to do with upgrading 
X because of the security alert.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb