From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 09:45:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FB5C16A4CE; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:45:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B623443D46; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id 5CEF1269; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:57:48 -0500 (EST) Received: from 141.156.69.109 ([141.156.69.109]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:57:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20040310125748.jo8sowso880wgwkw@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 12:57:48 -0500 From: Kenneth Culver To: Robert Watson References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: Matteo Riondato cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openoffice & current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:45:45 -0000 Quoting Robert Watson : > On Wed, 10 Mar 2004, Matteo Riondato wrote: > >> I have some troubles using en-openoffice-1.1.0_1 taken from >> http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/. When I launch it, it starts but >> after a few (~20) seconds it begins to use 100% of the CPU and I have to >> kill -9 it. On the terminal where I launched it from appears: >> soffice.bin in free(): error: junk pointer, too high to make sense > > I have an identical problem. The weird thing is that it appears to be a > property of the initial install -- I only see this on a new install at > work. On my notebook that I upgraded incrementally and had Open Office > installed on previously, it works fine. > > Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects > robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research Openoffice 1.1.0 works fine if you build it from ports. I have it working on my 2 FreeBSD-CURRENT desktops without any problem. It just takes forever to build. :-P Ken