I have had some success. After failing to get any decent debug information despite following all the guides I could, I went for another approach. I've not solved the problem entirely, but I have shown that this is not a hardware related issue.
I followed the instructions for creating a chroot with a basic Ubuntu installation (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BasicChroot), installed a few basic packages (nano, ssh, sshfs), set up the en_US UTF-8 locale (http://blog.andrewbeacock.com/2007/01/how-to-change-your-default- locale-on.html), which was necessary to install the Java dependency of OOo. I also had to add some repositories for apt to pick up OpenOffice. Now I have a self contained, very clean Lucid chroot'd inside my standard Lucid. Finally I installed openoffice.org-ubuntu and openoffice .org-human-style. I used sshfs to allow me to link to my standard user's home directories (I didn't want to mess with mounting the ecryptfs homes inside my chroot'd environment, plus I don't really know what I'm doing and it sounded scary). I have run for three days straight, heavy usage, with multiple apps and forcing the system to run out of memory and start swapping. No crash on the chroot'd OOo, and multiple crashes on the standard environment that I kept open just to observe the difference. I've removed some variables to my investigations (OOo can run on my hardware without crashing), and added some more (is the issue ecryptfs on ext4, since now I'm running effectively against a different file system type). But at least I feel like there is an end in sight... -- OpenOffice crashes with high frequency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
