Re: Severe problem with Writer files and X

[Caolan McNamara <caolanm redhat com>]

On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 11:12 +0000, Andy Hudson wrote:
> I just updated to Rawhide (yesterday evening) and have tried to work
> with some OpenOffice.org .DOC files.
> 
> Everytime I try to open one of these files X crashes and lands me
> straight back at the login prompt. This happens *everytime* and is
> extremely annoying. Opening other files (except OOo) seems to be OK.
> 
> I've filed a bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185798 but has
> anyone else seen this behaviour?
> 
> I'm working on Rawhide, installed on a Dell D610 laptop.

If it crashes X, then there is more likely an X bug rather than an OOo
bug. There might *also* be an OOo bug which triggers the X bug, but the
main problem here is X ;-)

You should include all your x.org details, especially the driver in use.

C.