Re: OO 2.2 freezes repeatedly on Freespire 2.0.8

[Philip Rowlands]

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