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[BarryK]

Wary 0.9.4 is out!

Blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01906

New forum thread for feedback:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=61304

[CatDude]

Hi

Here's an update on the OpenOffice problem.

I may be wrong, but it looks like it could be a video driver issue (or something related to it),
the reason i think this, is because no matter what i tried, it resulted in a lockup.

I used both of the packages suggested by Terryphi
http://dotpups.de/puppy4/dotpups/Libraries/java-jre-6u20.pet
http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/sfs4_modules-4/openoffice-3.1.1-sfs4.sfs
Note:
that OpenOffice .sfs (md5sum: fc31434295bb6992a335517a2ec9899d )
already includes java: /usr/java/jre1.6.0_16

even rebooting several times between installing the java .pet and loading the OO.sfs.

The result was always the same, a complete system freeze (well, the mouse would still move)
and i had to hit the reset button on the tower to get out of it.


Anyway's, i was running out of idea's and i decided to try mounting the devx
just in case that might contain something OpenOffice required, but that did not work either.

So i thought f*&% it, lets try installing the NVIDIA driver for my card,
though first i had to build it because there isn't a .pet available for it.

After building it, and getting back to the desktop,
i crossed my fingers (and everyhting else) and fired up Writer, it loaded up without a problem.
So i tried the rest of them (Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math), no problems with any of them.

It made no difference whether i had Java enabled or not,
nor did it matter what version of java i had OpenOffice use (jre1.6.0_16 or jre1.6.0_20)

So i gathered together the NVIDIA files and made a .pet for further testing.

I made several fresh frugal installs,
and installed my NVIDIA .pet first, before adding anything else.

The following all worked without any problems at all:

1. openoffice-3.1.1-sfs4.sfs no java required (it already includes jre1.6.0_16)
2. openoffice3.2-sfs4.sfs both with and without java-jre-6u20.pet or jre-1.6.0.22.pet (desktop shortcuts are missing the icons)
3. oxyoffice-2.3.0-sfs4.sfs both with and without java-jre-6u20.pet or jre-1.6.0.22.pet
4. OxygenOffice-3.2.1.sfs both with and without java-jre-6u20.pet or jre-1.6.0.22.pet

I hope this helps in tracking down the actual cause of the problem
CatDude
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P.S
These test were done in Wary-092 k2.6.34.6
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[DaveS]