Closing LibreOffice results in a crash

users
#1

Hi @all,

I have an odd problem with LibreOffice (RC1) on my netbook.

I'm running Mandriva Linux 2010.1 with the Gnome desktop and I have
installed RC1 and the German languagepack of LibreOffice. Every time I
close LibreOffice, it looks at first that it closed correctly. After
approx. 1 minute I get a popup from Bug-Buddy (the Gnome bug reporting
tool) that tells me, that the process "soffice" has crashed.

What's even more annoying than the crash message, is that I cannot
change the UI from English to German. I also have the default English
settings for the locale (en-CA) with CAD as my default currency and I
have to use the . as decimal separator instead of the default , in
Germany.

The Java version I'm using is the sun-jvm 1.6.0.22. Does anyone else
have similar experiences?

Thanks.

Sigrid

#2

Hi Sigrid:

I am also running Mandriva 2010.1 but with KDE desktop with LORC1 ... default French setting is French (France), locale (en-CA) with CAD as default currency. Java version is Sun 1.6.0.22.

My version does not crash and I can also change UI from Français (France) to English (US) and back without any problems.

I have 3 other Mdv + KDE + LO setups in our house at this point and these do not have this problem.

Not sure if this is a problem with Gnome as it seems we have the same setup.

Cheers

Marc

#3

Hi Marc, all,

[...]

Hi Sigrid:

I am also running Mandriva 2010.1 but with KDE desktop with LORC1 ...
default French setting is French (France), locale (en-CA) with CAD as
default currency. Java version is Sun 1.6.0.22.

My version does not crash and I can also change UI from Français (France) to
English (US) and back without any problems.

I have 3 other Mdv + KDE + LO setups in our house at this point and these do
not have this problem.

Not sure if this is a problem with Gnome as it seems we have the same setup.

Honestly, I'm hoping for RC2. What's surprising is, that I didn't have
this problem with any of the betas. I just wanted to make this problem
known and maybe someone else faces similar problems.

Sigrid

#4

Can you use the , instead or . for currency in any other locale settings, for
example the global setting for Mandriva on your machine? We had this problem in
Ubuntu's Launchpad Answers section a long time ago and found the South African
settings refused to allow the , to be used and it turned out to be a
long-running argument in the translators/LoCo team. Apparently the vocal
majority saw . as being more modern and/or less dispruptive because the , is
used as a special character in formatting apparently

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#5

Hi Tom,

other programs respect my locale setting. For example the OOo that
comes with Mandriva is in German and uses the German locale setting,
the same is true for the "vanilla" version of OOo. It is just LibO,
where I am not able to change to the German UI and the German locale.

Can you use the , instead or . for currency in any other locale settings, for
example the global setting for Mandriva on your machine?  We had this problem in
Ubuntu's Launchpad Answers section a long time ago and found the South African
settings refused to allow the , to be used and it turned out to be a
long-running argument in the translators/LoCo team.  Apparently the vocal
majority saw . as being more modern and/or less dispruptive because the , is
used as a special character in formatting apparently

I've never heard that the , is used as a special character. What I do
know, is, depending on your locale, the settings for exporting or
importing a csv file might differ. (I guess, that's the reason, why
OOo/LibO gives you a dialog where you can specify what the delimiter
for the values in those files is).

But besides this, I don't know of any other formatting case.

Sigrid

#6

Hi :slight_smile:

Thanks for letting me know. I never found out whether the South African problem
got fixed in Ubuntu so it is good to hear that is was treated differently in
other distros. Hmm, i guess it could be awkward for CSV files although they
generally need some cleaning up anyway in any language.

I didn't comment on the install/closing/crash problem because i still use an old
OpenOffice (still got the Sun logo) and haven't really installed LibreOffice
anywhere useful yet.

Sorry i can't help at all. hopefully soemone else might help later
Good luck and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hi Sigrid:

FWIW, I also have a quirky problem with my setups on Mdv2010.1 + LORC1. If I go to Tools->Options->General some of the windows overlap http://parentreprise.com/images/LibreOffice/LOToolsGeneral.png as mentioned in a previous thread.

Looking forward to the RC2.

Cheers

Marc

#8

RC2 is already available for download on selected mirrors...

This one for instance
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/tdf/libreoffice/testing/

#9

Hi,

RC2 is already available for download on selected mirrors...

This one for instance
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/tdf/libreoffice/testing/

Thanks. I've downloaded and installed it. :wink:
So far it looks good, but I will test more.

Sigrid

#10

Hi :slight_smile:

I thought RC3 got announced 'last night'? Apparently the announce lists are so
long that the server had troubles but it has been fixed now and the steering
group are trying to decide whether to re-send the announcement.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#11

Hi Tom,

Hi :slight_smile:

I thought RC3 got announced 'last night'?  Apparently the announce lists are so
long that the server had troubles but it has been fixed now and the steering
group are trying to decide whether to re-send the announcement.

Last night, RC2 was announced, not RC3. :slight_smile: Yeah, I am subscribed to
the announce list too, but I didn't get the message either. Florian
said, that he increased the time for the timeout and hopes, that this
will fix the problem.

Sigrid

#12

I received the announcement on December 22, 2010 at 4:02 PM (UTC-7).

Craig
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