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Re: Star Office 5.0 dumping core on install...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andreas Kaempf)
Mon Nov 9 15:19:53 1998

In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811091039110.17116-100000@jaymc.goshen.edu>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 13:14:39 -0500
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, James Michael Keller <jmkeller@radix.net>
From: Andreas Kaempf <andreas@sccon.com>
Cc: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com


This has to do with the XF86_S3V server in XFree86...  StarOffice is aware
of the problem and suggests you use the SVGA server instead...  Not much of
a solution but there it is...

cheers,
andreas

At 10:41 AM -0500 11/9/98, Jay Christner wrote:
>I've got the exact same thing.  I haven't done much work on it after the
>first 2 or 3 times, but nothing seems to help.  I can telnet in and
>shutdown the system cleanly, and everything comes back okay, but
>attempting the install completely freezes the console.  I even tried
>killing processes one by one remotely and resetting the ttys, but it
>didn't help.  I'm running on a Redhat.50 system recently upgraded to 5.1,
>maybe I'll try 5.2 now that I've got a CD burnt.
>-jay
>
>-------------------------------
>Jay Christner
>Information Technology Services
>Goshen College
>-------------------------------
>
>On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, James Michael Keller wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 10:03:32 -0500
>> From: James Michael Keller <jmkeller@radix.net>
>> To: "redhat-list@redhat.com" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
>> Subject: Star Office 5.0 dumping core on install...
>>
>>
>Just got so5 downloaded after a few days of trying.  Un tared ok.  I go
>> to install and it locks X up tight - no mouse, nothing.  Lose all
>> keyboard control as well.  I noticed a rather large core dump file in
>> the my home dir.
>>
>> Anyone else having this problem?
>>
>> System is 5.0 with erratas.  Tried this under the stock redhat wm and
>> under KDE.  The install gets so the first screen after the "loading
>> scripts" box.  It's an empty status box, with a [ Next >> ] button - no
>> text on the screen at all, and the mouse has frozen.
>>
>>
>> --
>> ===========================================================
>>         James Michael Keller | jmkeller@radix.net
>>               http://www.radix.net/~jmkeller
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>> Contents (c)1998 James Michael Keller.  All rights reserved
>> ===========================================================
>>
>
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