[plug] Open Office Calc

[conon]

On Monday 07 August 2006 09:16, Bernd Felsche wrote:
> conon <troll at arach.net.au> writes:
> >On Sunday 06 August 2006 21:20, W.Kenworthy wrote:
> 
> >> you have probably got it open in another instance of OO
> >> somewhere.  this includes remnants in memory of a crashed
> >> instance.  Check 'ps aux' and see if anything shows up after
> >> exiting any instances of OO running (not just calc, but writer
> >> and anything else, and probably quickstater if you are running
> >> that.)  In some stubborn cases the windozy solution of a reboot
> >> was needed!
> 
> >> I havent has this occur since I moved to OO2, much better
> >> behaved, even if its not as stable ...
> 
> >killall -9 soffice
> 
> That either works too well, failing to release resources (e.g. shared
> memory) or it doesn't work well enough it a process is blocked
> waiting in a system call.
> 
> If you can see the process, try to figure out why it's not
> terminating after a "normal" sigterm/sighup/sigfpe.
> 
> "Satisfying" a condition for which a process is waiting means that
> normal cleanup can take place.
> 
> SIGKILL "always works" though in my experience; with a high
> probability of corrupting data or of leaving behind a big mess.
> 
> It tends to be "cheaper" to yank the power cord, especially if
> you're dealing with applications on a multi-user database.
Actually Ive had a problem with OpenOffice 2.0.0 creshing calc on exit.
Just upgraded to 2.0.3 so will see if it is any better.

The kill -9 has worked well for me - it just doesnt update the recent files.

-- 
regs conon
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