Re: NVIDIA drivers break StarOffice was Re: Staroffice crashing

[Aaron Matteson <mindstorm loreland com>]

Carey F. Cox got off his/her happy ass and sent these 1.7K bytes,
> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003, Carey F. Cox wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I upgraded my home computer from RH 8.0 to RH 9 and have been unable 
> > to access staroffice since. I also tried reinstalling from scratch 
> > (both staroffice and rh 9) to no avail. Every time I try to invoke 
> > staroffice I get a segmentation fault. Same thing when I try to reinstall 
> > staroffice. I then assumed that there maybe something wrong with staroffice 
> > and decided to try openoffice. However, it is crashing as well with the 
> > same error messages. 
> > 
> > Did I miss something during the install of rh 9? I have seen no other 
> > reports of problems, so I am thinking that it maybe something wrong with 
> > my installation. Any clues?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Carey
> 
> I tried several things including upgrading java to j2re-1.4.1. Nothing 
> worked.
> 
> Finally reinstalled RH 9 with OpenOffice.  It worked! 

I too have been having some major problems with Nvidia's latest set of
drivers, the only time i get mass-segfaulting is after playing a game
then the only way i can seem to correct the issue is by rebooting.

Guess no games till the next set of drivers come out, i tried to roll
back to the older drivers i used with RH 8.0 and they would not compile.

> I then reinstalled StarOffice. It worked! 
> I then reinstalled the new NVIDIA drivers. Bingo! Neither openoffice nor 
> staroffice worked after that. I then uninstalled the drivers and they 
> started working again. So, something in the new NVIDIA drivers breaks 
> the StarOffice/OpenOffice programs. Guess I need to forward this to 
> Nvidia.
> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> Carey
> 
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