Openoffice problem

[Chris Halls]

On Wednesday 23 Feb 2005 23:47, Jakob Nickerson wrote:
> Open Office hasn't seemed to work for me in hoary for quite a while,
> maybe 1-2 weeks.  It just brings up an hourglass for a few seconds
> when I hit the button.  Is this happening to anyone else? is there a
> way to fix it?

Is there perhaps a rogue openoffice process around?  Try using
  ps -ef | grep soffice.bin

to see if there are any processes around, and kill them (killall soffice.bin) 
if necessary

Chris