Hi Michael. Check this link out. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=968
Now these guys are talking 60-120 megs for a 10 meg documents, you have 96 megs on your system, i am sure you would have exhausted them running kde or gnome plus a few services, so when you run oOo it just crashes on very low memory. Now i have seen this behaviour on a knoppix run on a 128 Meg machine, oOo would just crash at startup. try to stop some services, run blackbox instead of kde or gnome and have a go at it, alternatively you may want to add some ram to your system, 96 megs is really too small even for a kde or a gnome. Cheers Szemir On July 12, 2005 13:54, Michael Walters wrote: > Hello Mel, > > So it seems that my problem involves the failure of Open Office to > remove the lockfile when it shuts down, leaving a stale lockfile. > > I have a little further information on what happened to me today. > > I tried to open a file using open office gui and failed. > > I then tried several times to open an open office file using firefox. It > then prompted me to click on yes to open the file in open office and > then promptly hung. > > This happened several times, so I tried opening the file in Konqueror. > The first time it hung, but the second time I successfully opened the > file and printed it out. > > Does this give you a clue as to why my system frequently leaves stale > lockfiles? > > Blessings, > > Michael > > Mel Walters wrote: > >On Monday 11 July 2005 12:28 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > >>Although I at first thought that perhaps the lock file was created when > >>I perhaps right clicked when I should have left clicked, when I was > >>careful to only click the right way, I still got lock files. > >> > >>About every other time I create a new open office spread sheet I get a > >>lock file. > >> > >>I just remove the lockfile and open office works again, but does anyone > >>know of possible reasons lockfiles might be created when I work with > >>open office documents? If someone could tell me what to look for in > >>causes of lockfiles, I might be able to fix the problem by prevention > >>rather than by corrections. > >> > >>Regards, > >> > >>Michael > >> > >>Michael Walters wrote: > >>>Hello All, > >>> > >>>When I open new documents in open office I sometimes get another > >>>lockfile. But removing the lockfile seems to free up open office again. > >>> > >>>It is a bit anoying to remove lockfiles, but at least I can edit new > >>>open office documents. > > > >[SNIP] > > > >>>>The reason that is partial success is we do not know what created the > >>>>lockfile in the first place. > > > >Did I answer this already? I do not see my answer? > >Again: > > > >The royal WE here? I can see by your letter you do not understand what a > > lock file is or how it is suppose to work. > >Programs create lock files to keep track of things. That is normal. when a > >program closes down, it would normally delete the lock file (and all is > >well). > >If a program hangs up (freezes) or crashes, then the lock file (stale one) > >will still be there and we do not want it. This can prevent you from > > starting the program, as the OS thinks you are already running it. > > > >What has to be determined is, what is failing here? > >1/ Open Office could be going bye bye (hence a stale lock file to trip you > > up) or, > >2/ You could be trying to run ooffice twice, and the OS is complaining > > ( this could easily go on by focus not being on ooffice but other things > > on your desktop covering it up) > > > >I am not saying I know what happened to you. But you may be a little lost > > as to the details too, since your first assumption you make could be > > false or true? > > > >You can figure out what is going on. Only then do you have a hope of > > solving your problem here. > > > >Hope this helps you Michael > > > >Mel Walters > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
