OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen client

[Michael]

Hi, are you using Edubuntu 7.04 ? If so I have noticed that a lot of people
are having a lot of problems with it. I was having problems where the
terminals and even the server would just freeze sometimes while the kids
were doing their thing, mainly TuxPaint and Gcompris as the kids are all in
grade 1 and 2. After seeing how many problems other people were having with
7.04, I went back to Edubuntu 6.06. Problems solved :)
I may be wrong, I'm no linux guru, but is just seems to me that Edubuntu
7.04 is unstable...

-----Original Message-----
From: edubuntu-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:edubuntu-devel-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Jim
Kronebusch
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 10:21 PM
To: edubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com; edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: OpenOffice insert graphics, print and sometimes save=frozen
client


Well here I have been trying to figure out how to keep Firefox from freezing
clients,
and now I see OpenOffice is a major culprit as well.  The best I can do to
repeat the
problem for troubleshooting is to create a new Writer document, insert a few
graphics
from openclipart (5 seems to be plenty), then try printing to one of our HP
LaserJet
4000 printers, mouse gets a little jerky, sometimes graphics pop up all over
the top of
the screen, then before anything prints the client locks up.

I have monitored CPU/Memory usage with htop on the server, with htop in
screen 1 on the
client, with xrestop on the client from screen 7, memory usage with free on
screen 1,
and can not find a single spike in anything that seems to lead up to the
freeze.
However if I look at /home/username/.xsession-errors I do see some funky
stuff that
might start to tell a story.  See below, I added some comments to help see a
timeline:

First cleared all stale processes for the user then boot client
-- Log in as user, results below
Xsession: X session started for jim at Thu Sep 13 14:58:58 CDT 2007
Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US.
Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to
/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.
SESSION_MANAGER=local/ltsp:/tmp/.ICE-unix/9593
Initializing gnome-mount extension
modinfo: could not find module fglrx
modinfo: could not find module nvidia_legacy
modinfo: could not find module nvidia_new
modinfo: could not find module nvidia

(gnome-panel:9651): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to
allocate
widget with width -1 and height 24
--Start OpenOffice no errors
--Add in clipart, no errors
--Print to LaserPrinter, errors below
libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x280005f (OpenOffice)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.
--client now frozen

The errors are not exactly the same every time.  Sometimes the client
freezes sooner
than others.  I can also reproduce some errors on saving a file or while
simply making
changes to a document with the graphics already inserted.  But printing
seems to be a
sure fire way to freeze every time.

I have un-installed xterminator, scim, and DIRECTX support thinking they may
be a
problem.  No effect.

I remember a couple of weeks ago David Trask reported similar problems when
working in
Writer and Impress.

Below are some more errors I have seen, maybe some extra errors will give
more clues:
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x260005d (OpenOffice)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x2600169 (german - O)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x280005d (OpenOffice)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x280005d (OpenOffice)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.** (gnome-printer-view:7072): CRITICAL **:
gnome_cups_request_new_for_printer: assertion
`gnome_cups_printer_get_attributes_initializ
ed (printer)' failed

** (gnome-printer-view:7072): WARNING **: Neither request nor output_fd set
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x2a00003 (CHS_Main_L)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.

Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x280005d (OpenOffice)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.
Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with
a timestamp
of 0 for 0x280017a (german - O)
Window manager warning: meta_window_activate called by a pager with a 0
timestamp; the
pager needs to be fixed.


If anyone has any suggestions to try and get this resolved, please let me
know.

Thanks,
Jim Kronebusch



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