You might try running the Star Office install under GDB (the GNU debugger) or under strace (a system call tracer). I find that running programs under these (1) lets one know what the program is doing when it hangs/crashes/doesn't start, and (2) sometimes gives the program an incentive to work.
I think strace would be the easiest and most sensible to run here; instead of ./soffice, use "strace ./soffice" (strace _commandname_, basically). Tell the list what the last few function calls were. Best of luck! -- Asheesh. On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Tom Badran wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 15 Nov 2001 9:08 pm, you wrote: > > $ ls -l so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin > > -rwxrwxr-x 1 ronys ronys 124582824 Nov 7 09:06 > > so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin* > > $ md5sum so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin > > fd6ff8f5c8b828a285c023db3fa8c232 so-6_0-beta-bin-linux-en.bin > > Thank you. Mine are EXACTLY the same as those, and it doesnt bl**dy work. > Might have to try a good ol fashioned reinstall then. I REALLY didnt want to > resort to that. And it is odd that it fails on two copmletey different > machines (only common factor is mandrake). Does anyone have ANY ideas at all?? > - -- > Tom "Tomahawk" Badran > Imperial College Dept of Computing > - --------------------------------------------- > PGP Public key available from: > certserver.pgp.com > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE79DuyXCpWOla2mCcRAvc6AJ4oOQDAZRXMHOGDiskCKaktzuXT3QCePqVk > zMY6f4rgd48tcxzl3T6WCI8= > =wk1K > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
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