Help starting OpenOffice.

[Jammin1984]

Hello.

I have just installed OpenOffice 1.1.4

When I first installed it, it ran fine then froze as i dragged another window across the screen. It did not freeze freeze (hope that make sense) but the the other window I dragged left a permenant trail (like they do with very little video RAM) which did not dissapear. Open office was still working at this time. It would not close, and I couldnt get into the terminal to stop it so i did a Ctrl-Alt-BackSpace then started X again.

Now, if i try to run open office, the terminal just hangs:

jammin@Jupiter:/usr/share/OpenOffice-1.1.4/program$ ./soffice

I have tried doing a

#chmod +x soffice

even though I saw it pointless as i did a:

chmod 777 /usr/share/OpenOffice-1.1.4

before I installed OO.

?????????

Thanks much

<edit> Im using XFCE 4.2, Xorg 8.2 and slack 10.1

[Jammin1984]

Ok, so after a reboot, it works fine?!?

Why is this??

Thanks much

[sether]

It was probably still running even after you killed X. Some apps crash like this and don't exit. Use

top

to see if it's still running after it crashes. Use the

kill

command to kill the PID of the application. Then you should have been able to start it again without the reboot.

[Jammin1984]

WOW!!!

the "top" command is excellent!!!!

Thanks much sether, NO more reboots!!!!!!!!(well, a lot less..)

[sarumont]

WOW!!!

the "top" command is excellent!!!!

Thanks much sether, NO more reboots!!!!!!!!(well, a lot less..)

In addition to top, check out 'ps'. These are very useful programs in finding a rogue program to kill.

ps -aux

^^That is the most common usage for ps. Play with it. Love it. And don't ever reboot except for kernel and hardware changes.