Please refer to bug #63700, where by it is pointed out that during the upgrade from 6.06 to 6.10, I am unable to type more than one letter with हिंदी कीबोर्ड in OpenOffice. In gedit now typing seems to work.
Fresh installation of 6.10 is free from the problem of freezing beyond single letter. -- openoffice crashes on Hindi input https://launchpad.net/bugs/90171 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs