On a Gentoo Linux amd64 with openoffice-bin-2.3-RC2. Opening a new writer document with oowriter works correctly. opening a new writer with oofice -writer the application starts but freezes as soon as the document window is displayed.CPU usage is 100%. Window not responsive.killing the application and restarting with the second command results in the restore dialog being displayed. Attempting to rescue the document has the same results: The rescue dialog freezes. Also tested on Intel core 2 duo, same behavior. Using Gnome on x86_64. starting the OO with the oowriter command everything works as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.open a terminal 2.type ooffice -writer 3. Actual Results: The main oowriter window appears. It is not responding and CPU usage is 100% You have to kill the application to stop this. Further attempts to reload the same way have similar results. Starting with oowriter everything works as advertised Expected Results: The Openoffice writer window should respond and CPU usage should be negligible. In a nautilus window, double clicking on a document should open a properly working OOwriter application. ooffice -calc and oofice -impress behave correctly opening the spreadsheet and presentation applications respectively. Double clicking on a document from a nautilus window also exhibits the problematic behavior.
There's nothing we could fix about openoffice-bin, sorry. http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html
Jakub, I have contacted Andreas (suka@gentoo.org) who actually suggested that this may be Gentoo's problem and NOT upstream. He could reproduce the bug at least partially (through a terminal) Andreas I did not take the liberty to quote you here so please jump in. For your info, I have already filed an upstream bug http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=81409 before this one. I will reopen this until Andreas comment comes in George
1) Please never never never mark a bug concerning an ebuild that is hard-masked as critical, that is a bit ridiculous ;) 2) The final version of 2.3.0 is in portage now and it should work. Please test and report back
Upgraded on the machine that initially exhibited the issue. CPU usage and application issues are gone. oofice script needs a correction Line 4 should be: /usr/bin/soffice "$@" I will try to file this as a new bug non critical this time ;-) Will mark this issue as FIXED as it works in version 2.3.0 Thanks.
Created bug: 192833 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192833
