Carey F. Cox got off his/her happy ass and sent these 1.7K bytes, > On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Carey F. Cox wrote: > > > > > I upgraded my home computer from RH 8.0 to RH 9 and have been unable > > to access staroffice since. I also tried reinstalling from scratch > > (both staroffice and rh 9) to no avail. Every time I try to invoke > > staroffice I get a segmentation fault. Same thing when I try to reinstall > > staroffice. I then assumed that there maybe something wrong with staroffice > > and decided to try openoffice. However, it is crashing as well with the > > same error messages. > > > > Did I miss something during the install of rh 9? I have seen no other > > reports of problems, so I am thinking that it maybe something wrong with > > my installation. Any clues? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Carey > > I tried several things including upgrading java to j2re-1.4.1. Nothing > worked. > > Finally reinstalled RH 9 with OpenOffice. It worked! I too have been having some major problems with Nvidia's latest set of drivers, the only time i get mass-segfaulting is after playing a game then the only way i can seem to correct the issue is by rebooting. Guess no games till the next set of drivers come out, i tried to roll back to the older drivers i used with RH 8.0 and they would not compile. > I then reinstalled StarOffice. It worked! > I then reinstalled the new NVIDIA drivers. Bingo! Neither openoffice nor > staroffice worked after that. I then uninstalled the drivers and they > started working again. So, something in the new NVIDIA drivers breaks > the StarOffice/OpenOffice programs. Guess I need to forward this to > Nvidia. > > Thanks all, > > Carey > > -- > ====================================================================== > <> Carey F. Cox, PhD | PHONE: (318) 257-3770 <> > <> Assistant Professor | FAX: (318) 257-2306 <> > <> Mech. Engg. Program | EMAIL: cfcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <> > <> Louisiana Tech University | WEB: http://www.latech.edu/~cfcox <> > ====================================================================== > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Aaron M. Matteson mindstorm@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://loreland.com Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS/GCC d s: a- C+ UL+++ P++ L+++ E W++ N o- K w-- O! M- V--PS PE+ Y+ PGP++ t+ 5+++ X+ R- tv+ b++ DI++ D++ G e* h* r++ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
