Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:02:33 +0000
From:      "John" <lists@reiteration.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: open office freeze
Message-ID:  <20050228005104.M96254@reiteration.net>
In-Reply-To: <64455.24.90.34.93.1109507149.squirrel@24.90.34.93>
References:  <64455.24.90.34.93.1109507149.squirrel@24.90.34.93>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 07:25:49 -0500 (EST), kalin mintchev wrote
> hi all...
> 
> i've been waiting for long time to start using open office.... 
>  tested it a long time ago on linux but didn't have enough patience 
> to install it on my freebsd laptop.
> 
> well finally - after 4 - 5 hours build of java ports and 12 hours 
> (on a
> 2.2ghz laptop!?!?) of build of the oo-1.1 port i got it installed. 
> the setup program went without any issues.
> 
> then oo starts fine but when i try to do a new document - any kind - 
> it freezes so bad that even after the machine is synched and ready 
> to go down it won't let go and i have to pull the plug.... it 
> happens when i try to create a new document. i tried the other menus 
> and they were all fine. i start it as my user - not as root...
> 
> there isn't anything in the logs and as far is i can see there are no
> cores dumped....
> 
> now i'm not sure what to do to make this install usable....
> 
> machine is a 2.2 ghz thinkpad, freebsd 5.3, jdk 1.4.2, Xorg and sawfish..
> 
> what now?
> 
> thanks...

Hmm. I built from the port as well, but I excluded java on the make command
line. There was an optimizations flag and I turned that on as well.

How much memory have you? I'm running 768MB with an athalon 1GHz machine.
Do any other java apps work?
--
lists@reiteration.net



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050228005104.M96254>