Re: [LUG] Star Office choked and won't restart

[Mark Evans <mpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adrian Midgley wrote:
> I asked it to open a .pps file, it hung 9/10 of the way through opening it
> and I killed it.

Which version of StarOffice? OpenOffice 1.0 might do a better job of
handling the file.

> Now if I ask soffice to run it shows an icon for a while, then goes away, and
> I have a couple of lines in the ps output including soffice.bin and
> soffice.bin [defunct].

IIRC StarOffice puts a lock file somewhere in the directory it creates
in the home directory.

> THe latter seems to be completely unkillable - is there an incantation
> stronger than being root and issuing kill, or from top agreeing to kill 15?

What is the Parent Process ID (PPID), if it isn't the init process
you will probably need to kill the parent process. Unix systems can
have so called "zombie" processes, which are waiting to report their
exit status to their parent.

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