charpen
06-03-2001, 12:14 AM
I just installed Mandrake 8.0 Everything seems to be ok except that when I try to start Star Office to configure it, It hard locks my machine. Have to reset by the reset switch. Anybody know what is wrong? :confused:
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jaygee432
06-03-2001, 04:13 PM
Is that a version of SO that came with your Mdk 8? Let me suggest a long shot, maybe. When Mdk 6.0 and other distos using the same glibc or such came out, a bunch of folks suddenly found SO 5.0 incompatible with their linux because of conflicting libraries, so I wonder if you could have an issue like that. :confused:
charpen
06-03-2001, 07:04 PM
Yes it is the SO Ver 5.2 that came bundled with the Mandrake 8.0 Power Pack Edition.
irlandes
06-03-2001, 07:47 PM
There is another possibility. I mean no offense, since I did this very thing.
When I clicked on the icon soffice to start SO, I was impatient, and kept clicking it about every ten seconds. It attempted to respond to all those clicks separately, and took on more than it could handle. Click on the soffice icon once and wait at least a minute (longer if you have a slow machine, or not much memory) before you do anything else.
By the way, thanks to Chris, a member of the koffice team, for the following tip.
When the keyboard seems to be frozen up, find the key that is marked something like prtscr/sysrq. Okay, found it?
Using one finger, hold down the ALT key.
Add the sysrq key, with another finger on the same hand, if you can. Hold these suckers down until you are done with the other three keys.
Then, with another finger, type s, let it up, type u, let it up, then type b.
At that point, your computer should go down for a reboot like a rock.
There is a text file, hidden away in your machine. Do a find: find / -name sysrq.txt -print
If you get nothing, check to see if your kernel-doc package is loaded.
On drake 8.0, this file, when kernel-doc is loaded, will be in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.3/sysrq.txt
It tells all the details of the sysrq function. I have learned the hard way, it goes down cleanly, no forced checks when it comes up again. The s synchronizes something, the u does something like remount HD as read-only, I'm not sure. The text file will explain it. And the b sends a interrupt even if the keyboard seems to be dead. You hope.
When I clicked on the icon soffice to start SO, I was impatient, and kept clicking it about every ten seconds. It attempted to respond to all those clicks separately, and took on more than it could handle. Click on the soffice icon once and wait at least a minute (longer if you have a slow machine, or not much memory) before you do anything else.
By the way, thanks to Chris, a member of the koffice team, for the following tip.
When the keyboard seems to be frozen up, find the key that is marked something like prtscr/sysrq. Okay, found it?
Using one finger, hold down the ALT key.
Add the sysrq key, with another finger on the same hand, if you can. Hold these suckers down until you are done with the other three keys.
Then, with another finger, type s, let it up, type u, let it up, then type b.
At that point, your computer should go down for a reboot like a rock.
There is a text file, hidden away in your machine. Do a find: find / -name sysrq.txt -print
If you get nothing, check to see if your kernel-doc package is loaded.
On drake 8.0, this file, when kernel-doc is loaded, will be in /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.3/sysrq.txt
It tells all the details of the sysrq function. I have learned the hard way, it goes down cleanly, no forced checks when it comes up again. The s synchronizes something, the u does something like remount HD as read-only, I'm not sure. The text file will explain it. And the b sends a interrupt even if the keyboard seems to be dead. You hope.
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