[ooo-build] More issues – cannot open DOC and XLS files at all, ODT have issues too

espinosa_cz espinosa_cz at centrum.cz
Tue Feb 16 17:09:27 PST 2010


I have updated to 3.2 a few days ago, this is my third version from 
go-oo repo. But so far the most problematic :(.  It is so bad that I am 
suspicious that there must be wrong on my side. So after two days of 
testing I found this issues:

1) I cannot open any MS Office file. I cannot open any MS Office file, 
tested on several DOCs and XLS files. Dialog “General Error General 
input/output error” appears and that is it. No crash. There are some bug 
reports already in Ubuntu launchpad, but they complain about only some 
DOCs not working. For me its all I have tried.

2) Opening any ODT file cause “General error” dialog, but when you click 
on the OK button (the only option) it proceed successfully. Tested with 
OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome, kde, kde4, default and SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen, 
kde, gtk. Opening of ODS files is OK!

4) Similar behaviour with Save as.., saving document under a different 
name or first assignment of filename to open.

5) Strange behaviour when running with  OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde, no KDE 
VCL but at least it try to use kdefilepicker, which does nothing, just 
creating hanging zombie processess in the task list.

6) No traces of KDE4 support. Or at least I am not able to enable it. 
The OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde4 and/or SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde or kde4 seems to 
does nothing (visibly gtk VCL).

7) Dictionaries missing, no spell checking control. I did not installed 
ooolinguistic (nor ooofonts) so this may help as it already did in the past.

I did remove the ./ooo3 first. I did install all old packages, both 
distribution and previous go-oo ones. I did restart. There is no quick 
starter activated or any instance running apparent in the task list. 
Mandriva 2010, relatively freshly updated, KDE 4.3.5 desktop.

I am going to report them to Novell bugzilla as suggested. Anything I 
should try before? Well I give it more testing, reinstall all perhaps 
and will see.

Best Regards
Espinosa

P.S.
On the positive side, OOo seems to be really lively with starting so 
there are some improvements too.  But I did not really complain much 
even before.



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