openoffice-3.0.1 broken on FreeBSD

Robert Huff roberthuff at rcn.com
Tue Feb 24 21:14:05 PST 2009


Jon writes:

>  Have you had any success getting openoffice working?  I have a similar 
>  problem with xorg 7.4 and openoffice.org-000310_m1.  Upon attempting to 
>  run openoffice, I get:
>  $ openoffice.org-OOO310_m1
>  Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
>  Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".
>  $
>  
>  I get no errors, feedback, or dumped cores to let me know what went 
>  wrong, but it doesn't launch.
>  
>  If anyone has any info or things to attempt, I'd be glad to hear it.

	This is a known item.  It appeared with xorg-7.4 because
certain functionality has been added to the Xorg libraries but not
(yet) to the server.
	In all other cases where this has appeared, it has been
eventually disgnosed as "annoying but harmless".  Unless hard
evidence to the contrary appears, look for problem elsewhere.
	It also - as far as I know, and I am not an expert - has
nothing to do with this:

>  > (soffice:2726): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an 
>  > adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated

	which is only a warning.  (But should still be investigated and
fixed.)


					Robert Huff



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