Open Office 2.3 Impress always crashes
 

Hi,

Recently moved to Gutsy Gibbon but have found a big problem in OOo 2.3 (I was previously on 2.1). Impress continually crashes and refuses to open documents.

I suppose you could say Impress fails to Impress!

Anyway, are there issues with OOo 2.3? My first run involved a powerpoint document imported from my Vista share. OOo made all the right noises but then threw up a dialog telling me there had been a problem and asking me if I wanted to recover the document.

I clicked yes, it told me the document had been recovered and then OOo froze completely, so's I had to use xkill to wipe it.

I went back into OOo to create a new document but it froze at the loading bar stage.

After a hard reset, I tried again and this time OOo told me there was a document to recover: yep, it was the old powerpoint doc, which I'd already deleted.

Of course, because the doc had been deleted, OOo couldn't find it and told me so.

Any ideas, folks?

It's a bit ironic, because I give Impress presentations quite frequently and love telling my audience that they were created on Linux in Open Office.

Thanks in advance.

Try to set the theme on "human"
it worked for me

greetz
Jan

For what it's worth, I've removed OOo completely and re-installed 2.3 from a magazine coverdisk. The result is still the same.

Then I tried the latest tarball from OOo's website. The program now crashes in different ways, filling the entire screen and hiding panels etc. Will not open anything.

I've run 2.3 successfully from a Sabayon Live CD so I'm thinking it must be a gutsy problem.

I've removed the old installations in Synaptic, but when I'm installing from fresh debs the terminal includes messages such as "Selecting previously deselected package openoffice.org-common".

Does this mean that faulty old stuff is being reinstalled, even though I marked the packages for "complete removal" in Synaptic?

Really need help on this one, as I use Open Office a lot.

By the way, Impress is not the only guilty party. OOo will also crash in the word-processing package. I haven't tried the others.

Jan, I didn't give your suggestion a try straight away but now I have and OOo is working perfectly again.

Thanks for that - just wish I'd done it straight away.

I had exactly the same problems as eoinruadiscribed. Resetting to "human" theme did solve it. Oh come on! What's wrong to use other theme?

biocyberman, I'm sure they'll have it sorted by the next release.

I must have removed and reinstalled OpenOffice about 8 times before I tried jan's advice. It just seemed too simple.

But it sure as sugar is one strange bug and I'd rather have my own favourite theme.

Then again, if it works...

Even I have the same issue with my openoffice and as per this forum, changing to human theme solved teh problem for many. But, just curious, are you people talking about the gtk theme of ubuntu - human theme? And if so, how does the gtk theme relate to OO and if not then which human theme?