Re: OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8

[Kenneth Koym]

Hello Phil, in the night I responded to Mr. Proulx at address@hidden 
Then, after sleeping five hours, the magic wane you guys sent me or 
maybe my own did its deed. Yes, this morning my OO 2.2 opened as if 
nothing had ever occurred. I cannot explain it except that I did a 
control S on each file that would not save. Then I did a full shut down 
twice. Nothing more. Apparently, the content in memory/cache was 
unloaded once the saved files released the pressure on the sys. 
Personally, I am not sophisticated with regard to tech work, so I have 
to accept the magic bit. Not really. But I still cannot explain what 
truly solved the riddle. If persistence had not forced me to submit a 
bug report, I would not have used my questioning capability to seek a 
solution that did in turn work.
Kenneth

Philip Rowlands wrote:
> On Thu, 1 May 2008, Kenneth Koym wrote:
>
> > Attn: address@hidden
> > Repeatedly, OO 2.2 has froze while saving a document; often this 
> > happens just as I open and select a line or two for placing in 
> > another document or place it in an email for sending. Then, I have to 
> > spend hours and hours to resolve the glitch. Last night I said, 
> > "before going to bed, this is the latest response in the terminal
> > mv: cannot move `/root/.openoffice.org2' to a subdirectory of itself, 
> > `/root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2'
> > what causes this?"
>
> What version of coreutils to you have installed? The "bug" here is the 
> misleading error message from mv as
> /root/.openoffice.org2_backup/.openoffice.org2 is not a subdir of
> /root/.openoffice.org2
>
> As the Ubuntu bug you referenced points out, previous versions of mv 
> would sometimes mistakenly fail with "cannot overwrite directory" (see
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2006-05/msg00086.html).
>
> Unfortunately, this "cannot overwrite" error message is disguising the 
> real reason the mv command may be failing. Nonetheless, I'm confident 
> that, even with a newer version of coreutils, your problems with 
> OpenOffice freezing won't be resolved. As Bob points out in another 
> reply the best people to ask about OpenOffice issues are OpenOffice 
> support folks:
> http://support.openoffice.org/
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil