GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 81762
Problem with OpenOffice
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
When gnome-session is running and I start OpenOffice it usually crashed. There are several workarounds: 1) unset SESSION_MANAGER 2) starting gnome-session with "--purge-delay=0" 3) not using gnome. Relevant links to OpenOffice Issuezilla are: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4827 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4470 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4808
sadly look like this is real. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 81343 ***
this might be seperate from the other bug, will investigate further...
can OOo defer connection to the session manager until it's in a state that it can respond to a SaveYourself command? gnome-session (by default) waits 30 seconds before killing an app, which is a pretty reasonable amount of time to expect an application to take to startup. i can double check the spec to see if killing apps is not allowed, but otherwise i think this is NOTABUG (or NOTGNOME) what is this bug requesting to fix on gnome's side, anyway?
I and other people consider this a bug because it works with KDE and with Xsm but not with Gnome. The "bug" is that OpenOffice is killed by the gnome session manager. So my personal opinion is: take a look at Xsm or KDE and see why it doesn't get killed there, or (if KDE and Xsm don't support the feature which makes OO get killed) remove that special feature that kills OO or at least disable it as a default.
i'd consider it a bug that OOo takes so long to start up.
I've asked the OOo guys how long a delay they think is reasonable, there shouldn't be a problem changing it, although hopefully they can do their SM registration a bit quicker also.
if the people experiencing this problem on debian, i seem to remember their gnome init scripts setting the purge delay to 15 seconds rather than the default of 30 (with the same warn delay, so people won't get the dialog saying it's not replying). this could be exacerbating this.
Should this be closed now? I think both gnome-session and open office has had fixes to get around this problem now.
Has anyone seen this bug again ?
At least gnome-session has been fixed to allow the opening of openoffice : 2003-01-06 Mark McLoughlin <mark@skynet.ie> * main.c: make purge_delay and warn_delay 2 minutes by default. A proper strategy for this is being worked out in #94754 and will hopefully be done in 2.4. Should fixes the problem of slow starting up apps being killed off - e.g. OpenOffice. As openoffice is not part of gnome, closing.