Staroffice 6 crashes on Solaris 8 x86

[gianw]

Hello,

I installed the required SO6 patches and setup
appears to have completed successfully. However,
when I bring up SO6, it crashes right away when
trying to open/close any menu. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[Sun Microsystems - Marcus Lange]

Am 04.06.02, 16:50:09, schrieb gianw <gi...@yahoo.com> zum Thema Staroffice
6 crashes on Solaris 8 x86:

Hi gianw,

> I installed the required SO6 patches and setup
> appears to have completed successfully. However,
> when I bring up SO6, it crashes right away when
> trying to open/close any menu. Any ideas?

I can think about a few workarounds:
(These are for Linux, so IMHO you have to adjust some data like pathes,
etc.)

1.
If the keyboard name in the file "/etc/X11/XF86Config" is "pc104", please
change it to "pc105".

2.
Otherwise you can write some options as comment. Example:

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "keyboard"
Identifier "InternalKeyboard"
Option "Protocol" "Standard"
Option "XkbKeyCodes" "xfree86"
Option "XkbLayout" "en"
# removed designation for keyboard model to run SO6
# Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
EndSection

3.
If you are using KDE, you can change the keyboard name in the file
"/etc/X11/XF86Config" from "pc104" to "pc101". Then go to the KDE Control
Center and change the Keyboard Setting from:

Generic 105-key (Intl) PC

to

Generic 101-key PC

4.
If in the file "/etc/X11/XF86Config" is a line like this:

Option XkbVariant "nodeadkeys"

Please then write it as comment and save the file:

# Option XkbVariant "nodeadkeys"

Normally it should be enough to restart the X server, but not the whole
system.

HTH

Best regards

Marcus Lange
StarOffice Product Support