Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

[Chris Whitehouse]

Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 1. Januar 2008 14:15:40 schrieb O. Hartmann:
>> I use OpenOffice 2.3.1 on several hardwareplatforms running FreeBSD
>> 7.0-PRE/AMD64 and since I upgraded OpenOffice from OO 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 I
>> have massive problems, rendering OO unusuable! Before doing a PR I would
>> like to aks whethere there is a solution out.
>> Whenever I try to save a document in OO writer, OO gets stuck and I have
>> to kill it. The document gets saved, but I never can load it again
>> without rendering OO unusuable. Opening M$ Word docs or OO docs doesn't
>> matter.
> 
> Just to chime in: the problem has been identical for me since I upgraded to 
> FreeBSD 7 some two months ago. Any OpenOffice.org build I did (2.3.0 and 
> 2.3.1) fails to save and load any form of documents with the exact same 
> symptoms that you describe (i.e., the UI not being responsive anymore after 
> trying to save or load from a file).
> 
> I used the Sun JDK source build (1.5) to compile OpenOffice.org, not the 
> Diablo JDK by the way, and if anybody is willing to look at this problem 
> deeper, search this list to see a post of mine where I attached gdb to the 
> running (and hung) OpenOffice.org process and gave a backtrace of where the 
> (100%) CPU time is being spent. IIRC it was in some input filter, but I don't 
> really know anymore.
> 
> I've since moved on to KOffice, but if there's some fix for this, I'm more 
> than happy to try it out.
> 
Try upgrading your ports, it worked for me on i386.

Chris