[27300] in Athena Bugs
Re: OpenOffice3 crash loops on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Mar 31 23:45:30 2009
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
To: Harrison L Bralower <bralower@mit.edu>
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I've seen Open Office go into a File Recovery loop before.
I don't know if this will work for you, but it's worth a try:
Enter the recovery process, select the document that is to be recovered,
and then choose the option (I forget what it's called) to discard i.e.
give up on the recovery of the document.
Let us know if you're able to get beyond the loop.
-Bill
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:36 -0400, Harrison L Bralower wrote:
> I was working on a document this morning on an Athena station on our hall
> and when I logged out I hadn't closed OO first (but I did save my thing,
> thank goodness). So Athena auto-closed all the programs like it should,
> but when I logged back on and tried to continue working on the document OO
> repeatedly tried to recover the document, failed to do so, then crashed
> when trying to open an existing document/make a new one, then tried to
> restart itself, tried to recover the old document etc. in an infinite
> loop. Luckily, StarOffice opens the document just fine. Thoughts?
>
> --Harrison
