In message <20010424224749.573047B5E@berkshire.research.att.com>, Steve Bellovi
n writes:
>Some forward progress, some backwards...
>
>By dint of removing my entire /usr/local/office52 tree and reinstalling 
>it -- the exact same way, as best I recall -- and copying over the 
>.user52.rdb file from my 1.5R machine, I got StarOffice 5.2 to start.  
>That's the good news...
>
>The bad news is that there's some malign interaction with the X server. 
>If I run StarOffice from the 1.5R machine, all is cool.  If I run it 
>directly from the 1.5.1 BETA machine, the mouse becomes *very* sluggish 
>(with 5-10 second pauses before it does anything), and 'top' (from the 
>other machine) shows that X is consuming 95+% of the CPU.  Killing 
>StarOffice doesn't help, at least not immediately -- I'll experiment 
>further after I send this note and exit exmh.  
>
I found out what happens when I just kill StarOffice but leave X alone 
-- the whole machine dies.  How, I don't know; ctl+alt+esc didn't work 
at that point.  Nor, for that matter, did the power button; I had to 
reset the machine to reboot.

Sigh.

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