Re: [opensuse] 2 Versions of oo 2.3 Installed on 10.3?

Petr Mladek wrote:
Hello David,

On Thursday 01 November 2007, David C. Rankin wrote:
Listmates,

OO writer is behaving as if I have two separate versions or instances
of 2.3 installed. Sometimes when OO opens a file it opens with all of
the nice setting, appearance and user information I have taken great
care to set and input.

Other times when OO opens a document it open without any of the
settings I have chosen and the user information is gone. How can this
happen? This first occurred after opening a word (.dot) template. OO
writer said something about "loading template ... for the first time"
Since then, OO will randomly open with either my settings or with no
settings at all (the default setting). I have opened 6 documents in the
last 10 minutes. 4 opened fine, 2 opened with the oo default settings.
(huge ugly title bar and menu text, huge icons and blank user info)

Strange, do you still have these problems?

Have you discovered a system in the behavior? For example, does it open the
broken version only for a particular file type?

Where do I look to try an fix this? Is there a config setting somewhere
that I should check?

First, I would check the "Help/About OpenOffice.org" dialog of the two
versions. It try talk about the same version or...

Second, I would try to search all installed openoffice packages and look for
duplicities:

rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice

Third, I would verify the installation of the packages:

rpm -V `rpm -qa | grep -i openoffice`

If it does not show any problem, we might need to debug it...



Thanks for your response Petr,

(humbly looking for the "stupid" rock to crawl under) Ahh.. I think in
this case it was operator induced error. The problem was most likely the
result of running Konqueror in super user mode and launching a document
from within Konqueror which caused OO to source root's settings and not
the users. That is why the OO settings looked so different. Confusing as
heck until the light bulb went on.

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