Re: [LUG] Open Office 1.02 RIP

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Butterfield wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Any ideas as to why OO now goes through all the motions of loading up 
> (hourglass on the taskbar) then absolutely nothing not even an error message. 
> I tried reinstalling using the Mandrake 9.1's Control Centre but no better. 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction as I use it for "office work" and 
> one of my daughters uses it for homework.

Either you have a lock file somewhere under ~/.openoffice or there is
a process called "soffice.bin" already running on the machine.

Unless you have any data sources set up for mailmerge it is probably
safe to do "rm -rf ~/.openoffice". For the latter try "ps -aux |grep
soffice.bin"

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