[K12OSN] OT: OpenOffice Impress Woes - Any Ideas?

[Joe Baker]

Sudev Barar wrote:
> On 06/12/06, Paul VanGundy <vangundypw at sau14.k12.nh.us> wrote:
>> working fine, including making outlines, etc. However, as soon as
>> individuals start adding pictures or animations the program just
>> closes. Then when you reopen Impress it tries to recover the file and
>> fails.
>
> The only time I have seen it happen is when large files are dopped in.
> Maybe it was a memory issue. With LTSP server this should not be an
> issue.
>
> In OO-1.xx there used to be an issue if file is saved and closed from
> outline view it would not open but with Ubuntu6.06 using OO-2 this is
> not the issue.
>
Perhaps the thin client is running out of ram?  Do you have a swapfile 
enabled for the clients.  I've seen this sort of thing happen when 
Firefox has a huge background image and there wasn't sufficient memory 
for the thin client.

-Joe Baker