Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:33:58 +1030 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.com> Cc: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GLib problems with openoffice.org-2.3.1 Message-ID: <200802131733.58800.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <47B2548C.3010308@pcbsd.com> References: <200802112117.24830.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> <47B247B0.1050903@chillt.de> <47B2548C.3010308@pcbsd.com>
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Thanks guys, On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:58 am, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > This is a known issue and a workaround exists: Before running any > OpenOffice.org binary, set the environment variable OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP to > "gnome". So, for a C shell, you could type: > > setenv OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP gnome > openoffice.org-2.3.1-swriter > I take it that I don't really need gnome installed. I've now discarded the port build so I'll need some hours to reconstruct. > There is a patch that is supposed to fix this problem, but I am not sure > of its status. For me, the current port crashes in the same way unless I > use the workaround. > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:53 pm, Kris Moore wrote: > > This patch does fix the problem of hanging / crashing when you open / > save a file: > > http://www.pcbsd.org/~kris/autobuildpkgs/patch-fixhang I certainly try this. > > Just place it in the openoffice.org-2/files directory when you start to > build. We are using it in our PBIs here, and it works great. I forget > who made the original patch, but I think they posted it to the list > somewhere, and it just hasn't been committed to the port yet :( > > Thanks Bartosz, Thanks Kris Malcolm Kay
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