A couple of different problems led to alerts reporting a general input/output
error. A specific description of the error and its cause or possibly
contributory causal factor was lacking. If an alert can be specific about causes
or contributors, that would help.

On the other hand, perhaps OOo only issues the vague alert when it doesn't have
access to more specific information. In that case, there's no defect to fix or
enhancement to provide.

However, even incomplete information could help us. If you're concerned about
overloading a user, a More Details button in the alert is a good device.

An example of a problem is in the OOo forum, where I posted it recently and got
a couple of answers:
<http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9731&p=45960#p45960>.
A poster speculated about checking a CLI interface for information, but I would
assume a GUI can present at least as much information. If you have information
available through a terminal, please transmit it into the alert in the GUI.

I'm using OOo Writer 2.4.0 without Java Runtime Environment on Linux Fedora Core
4 on a Pentium 4 laptop. I didn't see this feature.

Related, but much less specific: Issue 79726.

Thank you.

-- 
Nick