Further progress on tracking down the cause -- I can demonstrate that it is related to an ecryptfs encrypted home directory. At least in my case...
To demonstrate it, I created two new users, one (testoooe) with an ecryptfs encrypted home directory and the other with no encryption (testooo). I logged in as my standard user (phil) and ran each of the following in turn from a gnome panel launcher: first with no home encryption > gksu -w -u testooo ooffice and I've been running fine for hours, forcing the system to run out of real memory, jumping between applications, no problem then with home encryption > gksu -w -u testoooe ooffice and I stress the box and instantly kaboom it crashes. So, OOo appears not to like home directory encryption with ecryptfs. I tried pointing all my standard paths in the options to the unencrypted user's .openoffice.org profile (after a chmod to allow me access), and it still crashes. So what on earth is different? At least this seems to have ruled out a broken library on the system. But I still don't know what the error is. Since ecryptfs isn't quite as invisible to programs as it should be at times, maybe this is the problem. I'm open to offers for other things to try. -- 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
