Openoffice not starting

[Guillermo Garron]

On 07/08/2009, at 07:11, Steve <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:45:09 +0100, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com 
> >
> wrote:
>
>> Hmm.  It may be a coincidence, but gmail is acting up, also.
>>
>> When starting in standard view, the progress thermometer at the top  
>> of
>> the page gets almost all the way to the right, then hangs.  If I: Set
>> basic HTML as default view it opens normally.
>>
>> On 8/6/09, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I used synaptic to reinstall all the open office components.
>>> Just the ones that were already installed.  Did not add any new
>>> components.
>>> It did not help.
>>>
>>> I assumed one of the files hidden in my home  
>>> directory .openoffice...
>>> something or other has been corrupted.  I blew them all away with a:
>>>
>>>   rm -rf .openoffice*
>>>
>>> That didn't help either.
>>>
>>> I'm still assuming it's something corrupted in my home directory,  
>>> but
>>> what?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Drew Einhorn
>>>
>>
>>
> Java problem?
>
> A freind had a similar problem and if I remember rightly he purged
> everything to do with Java. I can't get hold of him at the moment to
> confirm this though.

To be sure try some other web page with java. Or any other java app


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