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On Friday 03 May 2002 17:22, you wrote:
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.
5.2 I tried a recent beta of Open Office and it didn't run on my system, so I will try the release 1.0 but I havn't got it yet.
IIRC StarOffice puts a lock file somewhere in the directory it creates in the home directory.
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.
Should that prevent a further instance of the program running though? 2 zombies at present. akm@xxxxxxx:~ > ps -aux|grep office akm 838 0.3 1.1 209080 2864 ? S Apr28 28:28 /opt/office52/program/soffice.bin akm 875 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Apr28 0:03 [soffice.bin <defunct>] akm 11230 0.0 10.2 50592 26032 pts/4 T 16:41 0:00 /opt/office52/program/soffice.bin I removed the lock file and then looke at sofficerc an executable ... But running it gives akm@xxxxxxx:~/office52/user > ./sofficerc bash: ./sofficerc: Text file busy is that a bit odd? -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.