F8 and Staroffice8

Joachim Backes joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de
Wed Nov 21 12:38:21 UTC 2007


Hi Mike,

I found that exchanging the packages libX11 and libX11-devel by the correspondent F7-packages helps 
as workaround.

Joachim Backes

Mike C wrote:
> Simon Andrews <simon.andrews <at> bbsrc.ac.uk> writes:
> 
>> It's a problem with a change the X libraries in F8.  The Sun java hasn't 
>> caught up yet.  Using IcedTea from F8 should have been OK though - are 
>> you sure the installer is using the system JRE and doesn't include its own?
>>
>> There is a discussion and a work round for this problem at:
>>
>> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=171763
> 
> This is a problem with a number of commercial packages which include java
> within their distribution - and this includes Maple and Matlab.
> 
> I had a note from the Maple people and quoting:
> "Actually this bug applies to more then just Fedora 8. Anyone who has a
> Linux distribution with an updated X11 library included in it can
> encounter this problem. We did a little checking on this bug a while ago
> and we're not sure who's responsible for this; either the X11 people are
> or the Java people are. They know what causes the bug but they don't
> know how to fix it.
> 
> Basically X11 is being very strict with some of the checking they do
> before they'll do anything with the display and Java isn't being strict
> enough. Sun says it's not their problem and that it's fixed."
> 
> If you are using the sed edit workaround it is important to find all the 
> files that need changing and not necessarily two files. There are other 
> workarounds that have been suggested but it seems not all work for all
> people.
> 
> 
> 


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