Hi This is my first post too from someone who is generally a very satisfied convert to Ubuntu.
I have not had the difficulty you experienced with OpenOffice Cal but I have encountered a problem using OpenOffice Draw on my Latitude X1. The program will not open any drawing and just goes into recover mode. This is a problem as I have embedded some drawings on one chapter of my thesis which I am trying to finish. Sadly, the only way I can alter the drawings is by going to another operating system. Any comments or suggestions to solve this would be appreciated. Douglas On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:33 +0100, les wrote: > Hello, > > A first post by someone who has been lurking for some time, picking up > useful bits of information. > > I used Synaptic to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy, and now find that > OpenOffice Calc slows right down and can freeze my computer after a few > minutes of use. Using System Monitor shows that memory usage climbs to > about 95% (of 512 Mb) whereupon things grind to halt with the hard drive > running continuously. I had previously noticed that System Monitor > reported the swap size as 7.8 Mb, whereas I thought I had a swap > partition of something like 512 Mb, but I never bothered much about this > as there did not seem to be any problems when I was using Feisty - I > thought that maybe it was being reported wrongly. However, GParted > showed that the swap partition was only indeed about 8 Mb, and so I > increased it to about 512 Mb. However, the swap size still appears to be > only 8 Mb after re-booting and using > sudo swapoff -a > sudo swapon /dev/sdb5 > sudo swapon -s > Any suggestions as to how I can get all the swap partition into use? > > Also, has anyone else had similar problems with OpenOffice and Gutsy? I > have used Google to try to find out about this, but although there are > some problems being reported, none of them seem to be related to mine. > So far I have re-installed OpenOffice Calc without any improvement, but > have still to try re-installing the whole OpenOffice suite. > > One other problem with the upgrade was that VMplayer no longer worked - > I had to uninstall it and download the latest version from the VMware > website to get it working again. > > Les. > > > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
