OpenOffice writer broken after upgrade to 11.1

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Hello,

I have upgraded from Opensuse 11.0 to Opensuse 11.1

Now, when I start OpenOffice writer, I get nothing but the empty window
frame. No content appears, also after a long time. The complete space
below the window bar is not painted.

However, all other OpenOffice applications run normally.

Is there anyone who has an idea what I could do?

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Herr_Klugbeisser

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re-install the writer package in yast
But maybe you already tried that?

or

You could try re-naming the hidden .ooo2 and .ooo3 folders to eg:
.ooo2_old

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Lap: OS 11.1 | Celeron 550 | (KDE 4.1.85 “release 3.1” | Intel 965 GM |
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You are great!

I had installed the package already twice. it didn’t help.

But renaming the folders did the job. Thanks!

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Herr_Klugbeisser

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caf4926 wrote:

>
> re-install the writer package in yast
> But maybe you already tried that?
>
> or
>
> You could try re-naming the hidden .ooo2 and .ooo3 folders to eg:
> .ooo2_old
>
>

Thanks for fixing the problem I’ve also just found. A straight upgrade on KDE 3.5 system had worked OK but a new installation of KDE 4.1 (on the same machine and user) meant OpenOffice just wouldn’t start. Renaming .ooo3 did the job.

Many thanks.

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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy