OpenOffice Crashing.

[Larry Hartman]

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On Monday 12 March 2007 08:14:59 pm Dion wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to resolve an openoffice problem with kubuntu edgy.
>
> I can start openoffice calc and select a random cell and type some text
> into it and then as soon as I press enter or tab to a new cell the
> application crashes.
>
> I have tried reinstalls of openoffice, I have tried deleting my
> .openoffice2 folder. I have tried downloading the latest openoffice from
> ooo.org.
>
> All results are the same.
>
> The error messages if I start openoffice from the console are as follows.
>
> (process:6566): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2240: initialization
> assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function
>
> (process:6566): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_screen_get_font_options: assertion
> `GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed
>
>
> Google and K/Ubuntu forums have not yielded a solution.
>
> Has anyone experienced this or have thoughts?
>
> Cheers.
> Dion.
>
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