Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 16262
XFree hangs/crashes frequently during a document open
Last modified: 2003-11-04 17:34:36 UTC
My XFree hangs frequently. I think it happens when I open a document with the command line (swriter file.doc for example) and not from an OpenOffice dialog box. The entire screen freeze but the OS isn't crashed (I can kill X via remote connection). My X process takes more than 90% CPU This problem occurs with swriter and simpress (OpenOffice beta1 and beta2). My OS is an Gentoo Linux 1.4 and I have XFree 4.3.0 : XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.19-gentoo-r10 i686 [ELF] Build Date: 23 April 2003 If you need more information, you can ask me that.
Interesting .... I loaded the file from command line with swriter, but did not observe any freezing or other abnormalities. I have red hat 7.0.
Maybe it isn't due to the command line. Now, I think it's linked to KDE and the virtual screen. For example, I've 4 virtual screen. I launch swriter from the 1st one, I switch to the 2nd one and when I come back to the 1st, my X freezes (X take more than 90% CPU). It's not systematic. I've a NVidia card with NVidia driver but I've disabled the OpenGL use.
Crashes in XFree simply aren't OpenOffice's fault. You should take this issue up with you XFree86 vendor (presumably your Linux distributor, which since this is Gentoo, more or less is you yourself :-) and/or your graphics card vendor. I don't mean to be harsh, but X is supposed to be bulletproof. If a non-superuser app can crash X, then X has a bug.
SBA: Closed.