Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:04:48 -0500 From: Jon <jon-bsd@comcast.net> To: FreeBSD-Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: openoffice-3.0.1 broken on FreeBSD Message-ID: <49A75850.9030505@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <18852.54145.745688.345432@jerusalem.litteratus.org> References: <20090208011726.13ef1a93@yokozuna.lan> <49A4C1DC.1000505@comcast.net> <18852.54145.745688.345432@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
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Robert Huff wrote: > Jon writes: > >> Have you had any success getting openoffice working? I have a similar >> problem with xorg 7.4 and openoffice.org-000310_m1. Upon attempting to >> run openoffice, I get: >> $ openoffice.org-OOO310_m1 >> Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". >> Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0". >> $ >> >> I get no errors, feedback, or dumped cores to let me know what went >> wrong, but it doesn't launch. >> >> If anyone has any info or things to attempt, I'd be glad to hear it. > > This is a known item. It appeared with xorg-7.4 because > certain functionality has been added to the Xorg libraries but not > (yet) to the server. > In all other cases where this has appeared, it has been > eventually disgnosed as "annoying but harmless". Unless hard > evidence to the contrary appears, look for problem elsewhere. > It also - as far as I know, and I am not an expert - has > nothing to do with this: > >> > (soffice:2726): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an >> > adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated > > which is only a warning. (But should still be investigated and > fixed.) > > Thanks for the info. I ended up deinstalling the openoffice-3-RC and went with openoffice-3 and now it runs without problem. I'm not sure why the release candidate didn't work, but from my perspective, that's a problem for another day. Thanks again, Jon
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