On Monday 27 November 2006 14:38, ulrich wrote: > 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. > I've been fooled by that as well - with a dialogue box awaiting a response, but hiding behind the main window, so I didn't realise it was there. It was only after I'd forceably killed one or two applications that I remembered to always check that first. Anne
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