On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:51 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On or about Tuesday 19 May 2009 at approximately 02:42:40 David C. Rankin, > J.D.,P.E. composed: >> Listmates, >> >> I installed koffice and attempted to open an openoffice (.odt) document >> and kword crashed immediately. Next I opened kword again to read through >> the help file and any notes, and the help doesn't seem to work either: >> >> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/koffice.jpg >> >> The backtrace for the kword crash is: >> >> http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/kword.kcrash >> >> Is there a work-around that will let me get the help file working? It >> looks to be a kde3 desktop/kde4 runtime issue. Any help appreciated. > > OOOH, > > This is much worse than I thought. kword will not even open a text file > without crashing. Where does this bug go? Arch, kdemod or kde?. I seems like > it should go to Arch because there is something wildly incompatible between > the koffice build and kde3. Here is the additional kcrash backtract from > trying to open the text file if that will help sort out where the bug should > go. Thanks. > > Also, here is the *contents* of the 1-line txt file kword crashed trying to > open: > > 2008-03-08a-MERGED.txt > > Yes, that is the total 22 byte contents that crashed kmail. And this is a RC > release??? > I guess its time for you to upgrade to KDE4... The Arch package is a KDE4 package. IIRC you are still using KDE3. Although i certainly dont guarantee this will work. -- Greg
