OpenOffice Crashes

[3-Ball]

Just installed 64-bit Ubuntu Lynx. Rebooted per directions. Checked for updates. Installed them all (151 of them).

Launched OO Writer. While checking out features, I clicked TOOLS > BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE.
Wham! OO went down like it was shot through the head. I got an error message:

"Due to an unexpected error, OpenOffice.org crashed. All the files you were working on will now be saved. The next time OpenOffice.org is launched, your files will be recovered automatically.

"The following files will be recovered: Untitled1"


OO does this repeatedly, every time I click TOOLS >BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DATABASE.

Am I doing something wrong?

Let me know, please!

Thanks for any help.

3-Ball

[Hagar Delest]

First make sure that Base is installed (it is not by default with Ubuntu).
Then check that in OOo menu Tools>Options>OOo>Java there is a version checked (wait a while so that it scans the system).
If no change, try to reset your OOo user profile but don't transfer your personal data during the welcome process (if you had 2.x before), configuration files from the former version might corrupt the new profile.

If still no luck, try the Sun version: [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co.

[3-Ball]

I fixed it myself. What I finally did was to uninstall all OO components individually, power-down, power-up, and reinstall OO as a suite. The problem disappeared.

I don't know if my install CD is flawed or if the image I burned was flawed or what, but OO now works perfectly as far as I know at this time.

[Hagar Delest]

Base is not installed by default with Ubuntu, that's certainly why it couldn't work.

[zob]

I reported it as a bug here some time ago: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...rg/+bug/588306

No one seemed to look into it though.
I consider it a bug because openoffice WILL crash when using a certain function on a default ubuntu installation. So either that function should be deleted from the default openoffice in ubuntu or the package needed should be installed be default. Anything else makes ubuntu look kind of bad, don't you think?

[jtpoole99]

My openoffice.org 3.2 (build 9483) crashes after the program has been idle for a bit and I return to it to start typing. For instance, if i open a writer file and then go away to the kitchen for a snack and then return 10 or 15 minutes later and then switch back to OOO, it crashes when I press a key, mainly the ENTER key. I don't know what's causing this error. but it always crashes with the following error:

Due to an unexpected error, OpenOffice.org crashed. All the files you were working on will now be saved. The next time OpenOffice.org is launched, your files will be recovered automatically.

Is anyone else experiencing this type of error with OpenOffice.org, if so, could you please respond and tell me how you fixed it? I need to fix this issue as soon as possible. Thanks in advance for any help...