Re: OpenOffice 2.4 will not start
Re: OpenOffice 2.4 will not start
- Subject: Re: OpenOffice 2.4 will not start
- From: Eric Hoch <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:07:30 +0200
James,
if you still have trouble I can send you my working droplet off
list. The droplet is tested on Mac OS X 10.4.10 and 10.4.11 and
10.5.2 and works with OOo 2.4.0 and 2.3.x.
Or you try our native snapshots. See Andrzej post for the URL.
Eric
Am Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:18:56 -0400 schrieb James Rome:
> That
>
http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html
> fix (without your suggestion, which I didn't know how to use) did
> not work for me. it still hangs.
>
> I then tried your code change:
> cd /Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS
> mv droplet droplet.real
> cat > droplet <<EOF
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -n ${DISPLAY} ] ; then
> exec "/Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice"
> else
> exec "/Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS/dropplet"
> fi
> EOF
> chmod 755 droplet
>
> OO still hangs. The startup screen never appears.
>
> And NeoOffice is glacially slow in its spreadsheet because it is
> a version behind.
>
> Jim
> -------------------
>
> Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> Ah yes... That should certainly take care of it. The only
>> suggestion I'd make is to change:
>> if (atLeastOSXVersion(10, 5, 0)) then
>>
>> into whatever the applescript for:
>> if [ -n ${DISPLAY} ] ; then
>>
>> Thanks Shaun.
>>
>> On Apr 22, 2008, at 09:58, Shaun McDonald wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe
>>>
http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html
>>> will help here?
>>>
>>> Shaun
>>>
>>> On 22 Apr 2008, at 17:43, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>>>
>>>> Could someone from Oo.o on this list please comment on this
>>>> issue. It was known to be occurring in 2.3.0, and I proposed
>>>> a fix that was not included in 2.4.0, so I'd like to know if
>>>> this will be fixed at some point. The fix was pseudocode
>>>> rather than a patch because I can't find the Applescript
>>>> source to droplet. I could probably give a proper fix to
>>>> droplet if I knew where the Applescript source was, but I
>>>> don't see anything named '*droplet*' in OOH680_m12...
>>>>
>>>> I do the following workaround for my system:
>>>> cd /Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents
>>>> cp Info.plist Info.plist.orig
>>>> sed 's:droplet:soffice:' Info.plist.orig > Info.plist
>>>> rm Info.plist.orig
>>>>
>>>> This would work too:
>>>> cd /Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS
>>>> mv droplet droplet.real
>>>> cat > droplet <<EOF
>>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>> if [ -n ${DISPLAY} ] ; then
>>>> exec "/Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice"
>>>> else
>>>> exec "/Applications/OpenOffice.org 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS/dropplet"
>>>> fi
>>>> EOF
>>>> chmod 755 droplet
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Apr 22, 2008, at 08:37, Andrzej Figas wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 4:36 PM, James Rome <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> OpenOffice 2.4 will not start for me. Well, it starts but will not run.
>>>>>> First the term window appears.
>>>>>> Then I get a timeout message.
>>>>>> Then I got a popup asking me if I wanted to use the system
>>>>>> fonts. I said
>>>>>> yes, and the wheel appeared. It was still there this
>>>>>> morning. I had to use
>>>>>> Force Quit.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is with 2.2.0.1
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Old thing. Use Terminal to run OO and type:
>>>>> /Applications/OpenOffice.org\
>>>>> 2.4.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice &\
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe you should try new OOo 3.0 beta Aqua. It works for me. You can
>>>>> download latest milestone here:
>>>>> http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/
>>>>>
>>>>> Latest is:
>>>>>
Dev_DEV300_m9/<http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/Dev_DEV300_m9/>
>>>>>
>>>>> Visit this page every week to check if there is new version.
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