Instant crash with Linux OpenOffice

[Michel Talon]

Francois Tigeot wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have recently upgraded the root fs to Hammer on one of my machines.
> Since then, I have been unable to run any version of OpenOffice.
> Previously, misc/openoffice2-bin and misc/openoffice3-bin ran fine.
> 
> The OS is DragonFly 2.2.2-RELEASE.
> 
> The splash screen begins to appear and then OpenOffice crashes with some
> weird errors:

I have seen bizarre crashes of OO on FreeBSD. The cause was that OO wants to
lock the files it works on, and those files were on a NFS mount with
lockd not working. Fixing the NFS locking solved the problem. Maybe this is 
something to explore.
 

-- 
Michel Talon