I am having some serious problems with OpenOffice.org.
All was fine with version 3.0.something in Ubuntu 9.04, then one day
recently the update manager gave me a new version.
Since then it will not work properly. Every time I start OOo I get an
error message saying "Failed to set the look and f
2009/11/4 David King :
> I am having some serious problems with OpenOffice.org.
>
> It was all okay until an Ubuntu update. So can I go back to an earlier
> version that worked? Or is a simple solution to just remove/install/fix
> something with the current installation to get it working again?
>
Maybe try removing the .openoffice.org and .openoffice.org2
subdirectories in your home?
Worth a shot, anyway.
Sean
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On 3 Nov 2009 at 18:21, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> 2009/11/3 Alan Bell :
> > an upgrade advisor is an excellent idea, in fact a hardware testing tool
> > that scans PCI and USB bus and summarises the level of support for each
> > item by looking it up on the web would be an excellent tool. Thinking
> >
tim.ritt...@doctors.org.uk wrote:
> How many people out there use dual monitors? Is the general poor
> support for dual monitors a conequence of the closed source nature of
> the graphics drivers? I would ideally like to use kde, but this
> doesn't support dual screens at all.
I don't know if it's
On 3 Nov 2009 at 22:34, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> 2009/11/3 Tony Pursell :
> > Once done, is this sort of ugrade useable? To test if the upgrade
> > works on the target machine? Then committed or rolled back? Or
> > can it just be rolled back if someway into the upgrade process there is
> > a failur
2009/11/3 Tony Pursell :
> Once done, is this sort of ugrade useable? To test if the upgrade
> works on the target machine? Then committed or rolled back? Or
> can it just be rolled back if someway into the upgrade process there is
> a failure (eg lack if disk space)?
>
No idea. never tried it.
2009/11/3 Alan Bell :
> an upgrade advisor is an excellent idea, in fact a hardware testing tool
> that scans PCI and USB bus and summarises the level of support for each
> item by looking it up on the web would be an excellent tool. Thinking
> about it there is no reason why such a tool shouldn't
On 3 Nov 2009 at 17:47, Alan Bell wrote:
>
> an upgrade advisor is an excellent idea, in fact a hardware testing tool
> that scans PCI and USB bus and summarises the level of support for each
> item by looking it up on the web would be an excellent tool. Thinking
> about it there is no reason why
an upgrade advisor is an excellent idea, in fact a hardware testing tool
that scans PCI and USB bus and summarises the level of support for each
item by looking it up on the web would be an excellent tool. Thinking
about it there is no reason why such a tool shouldn't be available on
other operatin
Try launching from a terminal, does it output any errors?
Neil Perry
2009/11/3 john
> Many thanks for the offer of help Rob Beard but I have eventually had to
> re install 9.10. I sent details of my problem to the developers and they
> were unsure of the cause!
>
> I have installed Moovida and
What happens if you install it with apt-get, could you copy the errors it
prints to the terminal?
Ed Morgan
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Many thanks for the offer of help Rob Beard but I have eventually had to
re install 9.10. I sent details of my problem to the developers and they
were unsure of the cause!
I have installed Moovida and had no success with that. When opening the
program, it just locks up. I have installed it a coupl
On 3 Nov 2009 at 8:13, Philip Stubbs wrote:
>
> 2009/11/3 Sean Miller :
> > Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
> > ambitious?
> >
> > Sean
>
> There will never be a 'one size fits all' If six months is too fast
> for someone, then they should use only LTS rele
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ed Morgan wrote:
> Is is possible that the Karmic release is getting something of a higher
> profile in the mainstream press due to it's release pretty much coinciding
> with Windows 7, and the hype that's been generated about it?
>
> I think it's equally possible
Is is possible that the Karmic release is getting something of a higher
profile in the mainstream press due to it's release pretty much coinciding
with Windows 7, and the hype that's been generated about it?
Ed Morgan
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the
blac
Gordon Allott wrote:
> just to note that article is filled with statistical crap of the highest
> ridiculousness, as always, the loudest voice is never of the people who
> are happy, but rather of the few who have problems.
Yes, the article does make a meal of the vote on the Ubuntu forum, which
2009/11/3 Alan Bell :
> this is a perfectly reasonable expectation. When this expectation is not
> met the correct response is to file a bug and work with others on fixing it.
>
That may be the desired response, but often it's not what actually
happens. What often happens is one or more of the fol
Alan Bell wrote:
> Neil Perry wrote:
>
>> I agree with you Ed. They expect out of the box complete working.
>>
>> Neil Perry
>>
>>
>
> this is a perfectly reasonable expectation. When this expectation is not
> met the correct response is to file a bug and work with others on fixing it.
>
Agreed. Sorry my point was more that the people who have installed Karmic
successfully more than likely won't be seen chundering online about it.
Hence why those that haven't managed a successful install may seem to be
more prevalent...
I don't think it's a reasonable suggestion to expect Ubuntu t
Neil Perry wrote:
> I agree with you Ed. They expect out of the box complete working.
>
> Neil Perry
>
this is a perfectly reasonable expectation. When this expectation is not
met the correct response is to file a bug and work with others on fixing it.
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I agree with you Ed. They expect out of the box complete working.
Neil Perry
2009/11/3 Ed Morgan
> Exactly, the thousands of people who've installed Karmic won't be seen
> moaning online about it... As I said earlier, people expect something to
> work, and when it does they won't be seen screa
Exactly, the thousands of people who've installed Karmic won't be seen
moaning online about it... As I said earlier, people expect something to
work, and when it does they won't be seen screaming about it...
Ed Morgan
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blac
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 07:35 +, mac wrote:
> You'll probably have seen this:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>
> Not the press we'd have hoped for - and from a usually friendly source.
> I must say, I, too, had a bit of a problem with an upgrade from 9.04
mac wrote:
> You'll probably have seen this:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/03/karmic_koala_frustration/
>
> Not the press we'd have hoped for - and from a usually friendly source.
> I must say, I, too, had a bit of a problem with an upgrade from 9.04
> (just a failure of the automatic
Just to throw my oar in, I've upgraded 2 boxes to Karmic, one elderly Acer
laptop, and an ancient desktop. Both of which just worked.
As someone said earlier, people are clearly not doing any research on
hardware prior to upgrading, and the bad press is getting outweighed by the
good press.As Pope
Sean Miller wrote:
> Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
> ambitious?
>
> Sean
>
Maybe it is, but I guess the problem is that it would mess with the easy
to remember release dates (x.04 and x.10). Maybe it would be better to
have say a 6 monthly or so point
Please don't get me wrong: I was merely asking the question, as I
think that 6 months is a very ambitious timescale to get a completely
new distribution built.
The LTS vs. regular releases thing is, imho, rather a red herring -
the implication seems to be that it is okay to market an "unfinished
r
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/11/3 mac :
>
>> Sean Miller wrote:
>>
Snip===
>> Note that there are also people saying their upgrade went smoothly..
>> Snip===
Just to add my two pennyworth ...
I upgraded my Acer Aspire One w
Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/11/3 Sean Miller :
>> Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
>> ambitious?
>>
>> Sean
>
> There will never be a 'one size fits all' If six months is too fast
> for someone, then they should use only LTS releases. Alternatively,
> they cou
> Different card (9600GT), but I have dual screen working with TwinView
> via the nvidia-settings. It's not ideal for a permanent dual screen
> setup as it needs to be reapplied each boot, but at least it should
> work as a temporary solution.
>
>
twinview should work fine after a reboot.
run
2009/11/3 Luke-Jennings :
> Hi,
>
> Sorry for the late reply but I have the 185 driver installed on my
> laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 256MB graphics card. I use disper
> as it is a quick means of changing screen outputs.
> http://willem.engen.nl/projects/disper/ My dual screen set-up works
2009/11/3 mac :
> Sean Miller wrote:
>> Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
>> ambitious?
>
> You do have to wonder about the PR cost, don't you?
>
Note that there are also people saying their upgrade went smoothly..
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/nzsouthernman/6906
2009/11/3 Sean Miller :
> Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
> ambitious?
>
> Sean
There will never be a 'one size fits all' If six months is too fast
for someone, then they should use only LTS releases. Alternatively,
they could use Debian, or Suse or RedHat et
Sean Miller wrote:
> Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
> ambitious?
You do have to wonder about the PR cost, don't you?
mac
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