On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:12:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > not quite sure who to blame on this one, x? kernel? star office? > > whenever I start up star office installer, machine bombs. > > if I export my display from remote host -> troubled box and run star > office from remote host, troubled box bombs.
I bet you're running out of memory. StarOffice is really a hog. Try running an xosview and watching your usage creep up. If you're really desperate to use StarOffice, try adding an extra swapfile as described in mkswap(8) and swapon(8). Rob -- Why you say you no bunny rabbit when you have little powder-puff tail? -- The Tasmanian Devil