David G. Miller wrote: > Open Office has suddenly decided that the file open dialogue box should > freeze the program. Since it's been several days since the last OO > update and I've edited several files in the mean time, I'm guessing > something else has broken and is causing the problem. I just have no > idea of what that would be. > > To reproduce the problem, start an OO app from the start menu and select > file -> open. OO freezes solid and only a close window request followed > by a forced quit exits the program. Double clicking on a file (e.g., > the file I originally wanted to edit) works just fine and starts OO with > the selected file. I'm just unable to use the file open dialogue to > select a file from with an OO app. The only output from X that relates > to the problem is the kill requests are printed. Nothing in any log file. > > Has anyone else seen this? Any hints as to how to fix it short of a > reboot? Just restarting X didn't fix it but a reboot did. I'm running > FC6 with all updates applied. > > Thanks, > Dave > Are you sure that there not another pop-up active, which you need to acknowledge first. I had this serveral times that on another desktop you need to acknowledge something. OO only seems to be frozen... For some reason active pop-up don't show up on top. ulrich
