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ubuntu 8.04 open office causes system freeze

Asked by Myroslav

I wrote this about a week ago:

"I am using ubuntu 8.04. Everything was going well with Open Office programs until this morning. I received notification of an update and opened Update Manager. I then received a notification that not all updates could be installed. These uninstallable updates were all for Open Office. I installed what I could and then went to Synaptic Package Manager and choosing "Mark all Upgrades", installed the Open Office upgrades. At the same time, however, certain other packages were removed. There are some things I can do with Open Office but other things (like right clicking on a file) cause the system to freeze."

I received the following resonse:

"You have the proposed updates enabled. You can set this in Software Sources->Updates.
This morning hardy-proposed pushed an unstable version of openoffice. This did not involve the language packages witch were uninstalled when you upgraded openoffice.
But for you my friend, you can force a version in synaptic. Just force all affected openoffice packages to the last version and you will be fine. I hope the new version will be stable soon."

I MUST HAVE DONE SOMETHING WRONG BECAUSE i STILL HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM. OPEN OFFICE IS NOW PRACTICALLY UNUSEABLE. HELP PLEASE.

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Elfy (elfy) said : 		#1

That was rc1 I believe it broke openoffioce for me as well - I reinstalled all the oo packages that were at rc1 using synaptic. Since then there has been a new update to rc2.

If you have disabled the proposed repo try to enable it and let openoffice update.

If that doesn't fix it for you I would use synaptic to search for all the openoffice packages you have installed and mark them for removal then reinstall them.

If you still get problems come back.

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#2

Thanks forestpixie,

I'm not sure what you mean by rcl and rc2.

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#3

ok. I figured out whar release candidate 1 and 2 are. My problem occurred when updating to rc1. Since then I have updated to rc2. The problem persists. I tried uninstalling all openoffice packages (they were all rc2) and reinstalling them with synaptic. This did not help. Additionally, I get an error message now trying to open an email attachment in any text format. How can I get back to the original oo programs before rc1 and rc2?

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#4

ok. I figured out whar release candidate 1 and 2 are. My problem occurred when updating to rc1. Since then I have updated to rc2. The problem persists. I tried uninstalling all openoffice packages (they were all rc2) and reinstalling them with synaptic. This did not help. Additionally, I get an error message now trying to open an email attachment in any text format. How can I get back to the original oo programs before rc1 and rc2?

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Elfy (elfy) said : 		#5

I don't think that you can get to a pre rc1 state with the repos - you will have to use a downloaded version from the openoffice site - incidentally you can also get hold of openoffice 3 there as well.

This is as good as any as a how to - bear in mind that versions change, but the syntax should remain the same. That will work for the version 3 as weel if you try it out - but ther is no menu as yet and you will need to create a launcher for it

This is the path I use for my launcher

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice

Other than that I can't do much more with oo.

AS far as the e-mail error goes I would need to see the error it gives - copy/paste here please.

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#6

Thank you for your response.

The email part seems to be ok for now. However, I have tried all
suggestions with oo and cannotdo much without it suddenly freezing the
system. I should think that someone would have a fix for this in the
next oo update.

I tried your suggestion with oo3 beta. It looks cool. After an hour of
looking around I noticed some fine new features and no freezes.

Thanks

M

forestpixie wrote:
> Your question #35478 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/35478
>
> Status: Open => Answered
>
> forestpixie proposed the following answer:
> I don't think that you can get to a pre rc1 state with the repos - you
> will have to use a downloaded version from the openoffice site -
> incidentally you can also get hold of openoffice 3 there as well.
>
> This is as good as any as a how to - bear in mind that versions change,
> but the syntax should remain the same. That will work for the version 3
> as weel if you try it out - but ther is no menu as yet and you will need
> to create a launcher for it
>
> This is the path I use for my launcher
>
> /opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice
>
> Other than that I can't do much more with oo.
>
> AS far as the e-mail error goes I would need to see the error it gives -
> copy/paste here please.
>
>

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Myroslav (mgalan) said : 		#7

Problem solved with last open office update.

Thanks to all that responded.