CentOS - Jun 2011 - OpenOffice 3.3.0 crashing on CentOS 5.5

The last few releases of OpenOffice have gotten very
unstable on my desktop which is a CentOS 5.5 i386 system.
After multiple crashes when doing embedded simple drawings
in OpenOffice writer (circles and lines with connections), I
started using the versions from Sun then Oracle.  I am
now using version 3.3:  openooffice.org3-3.3.0-9567.  I've
lived with this but with version 3.x it has gotten really bad.

Display info:  depth 16-bit, Intel Boradwater-G Chipset 965Q

Crashes I am experiencing now:

  Writer sometimes using 100% CPU and X is unresponsive.
    (I have to ssh to the workstation and kill Writer to recover.)

  Random crashes in Writer

  Writer crashes when moving circles or lines in
    simple drawings (mainly circles, lines, clipart, etc.)
    (insert -> object -> OLE object -> OO drawing)...

  crashes in Calc when adding text at the end of a
    line of text in a cell.

Could this be a problem with some setting or with Java?

Any help would be most appreciated,
--
Wade Hampton

Wade Hampton wrote:
> The last few releases of OpenOffice have gotten very
> unstable on my desktop which is a CentOS 5.5 i386 system.
> After multiple crashes when doing embedded simple drawings
> in OpenOffice writer (circles and lines with connections), I
> started using the versions from Sun then Oracle.  I am
> now using version 3.3:  openooffice.org3-3.3.0-9567.  I've
> lived with this but with version 3.x it has gotten really bad.
> 
> Display info:  depth 16-bit, Intel Boradwater-G Chipset 965Q
> 
> Crashes I am experiencing now:
> 
>   Writer sometimes using 100% CPU and X is unresponsive.
>     (I have to ssh to the workstation and kill Writer to recover.)
> 
>   Random crashes in Writer
> 
>   Writer crashes when moving circles or lines in
>     simple drawings (mainly circles, lines, clipart, etc.)
>     (insert -> object -> OLE object -> OO drawing)...
> 
>   crashes in Calc when adding text at the end of a
>     line of text in a cell.
> 
> Could this be a problem with some setting or with Java?
> 
> Any help would be most appreciated,
> --
> Wade Hampton
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> 
Are there any crash reports?

Run OOO from terminal so you can capture errors and problems.

Ljubomir

Wade Hampton wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:40 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Wade Hampton wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at
plnet.rs>
wrote:
>>>> Wade Hampton wrote:
>>>>> This is seems to be from openoffice.org-ure-1.7.0-9567:
>>>>> ? /opt/openoffice.org/ure/lib/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.0.so.3
<nsip>
>>> On this and several other co-worker's computers, I had
>>> to remove ALL older OOO files to get it to install. ?The
>>> version is the one from the 3.3 tarball:
>>> ?000330_m20_native_packed-1_en-use.9567
>>> ? ?openoffice.org-ure-1.7.0-9567.i586.rpm
>> <snip>
>> *How* did you remove all older OOO files? You are aware that CentOS
> Very painfully....
>
>> installs OO via yum and rpm (I seem to have the current, which is 3.1).
Is it possible that you removed tarballs, but not the
rpm's?
> No, I removed the RPMs and the installed RPMs seem to be OK
> (verified by:  rpm -qa | grep openoffice | xargs -n1 -t -i rpm -V {} ).
Did you remove them via yum, or rpm? Yum will take care of dependencies,
and *those* would still be there if you only used rpm -e, and that's what
may be eating you.

          mark