11.3 & OpenOffice

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#1

I have just installed 11.3, 3.2.1.4-1.2-i586 rpm openSUSE-11.3-1.82. OpenOffice, which I use a frequently came up with an error message - “JRE is Defective”.

“OpenOffice.org requires a Java routine environment (JRE) to perform this task.The selected JRE is defective. Please select another version or install another JRE and select it under Tools-Open Office.org-JRE”. Clicking the “OK” on the third or fourth try brought up a spreadsheet.

I checked the installed version and found it identical to OpenOffice.org latest version: 3.2.1.4. I then reinstalled and now it goes through the loading process and flashes a blank page, presumably the function selection screen without any prior warning.

I use a 32 bit PC with 512k RAM. When I loaded 11.2 I received a warning message that some applications might not work, but I went ahead and found no problems with any of the applications that I use. Installing 11.3, no warning was given.

I have gone through the posts and found only one similar where it would not load on a system with Gnome. :’(

#2

Have just found error log in Documents. Note the query re swap space - I have 776GB allocated. Here are the comments without the complete dump:

A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 32756 bytes for ChunkPool::allocate. Out of swap space?

Internal Error (allocation.cpp:117), pid=10430, tid=3031410384

Error: ChunkPool::allocate

JRE version: 6.0_17-b17

Java VM: OpenJDK Client VM (14.0-b16 mixed mode linux-x86 )

Derivative: IcedTea6 1.7.3

Distribution: Custom build (Mon Jul 5 23:35:28 UTC 2010)

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Current thread (0x086f3400): JavaThread “Unknown thread” [_thread_in_vm, id=10430, stack(0xbfb41000,0xbfb91000)]

Stack: [0xbfb41000,0xbfb91000]

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OS:openSUSE 11.3 (i586)
VERSION = 11.3

uname:Linux 2.6.34-12-default #1 SMP 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 i686
libc:glibc 2.11.2 NPTL 2.11.2
rlimit: STACK 8192k, CORE 0k, NPROC 1874, NOFILE 8192, AS 836960k
load average:1.45 1.04 0.55

CPU:total 1 (1 cores per cpu, 1 threads per core) family 15 model 1 stepping 2, cmov, cx8, fxsr, mmx, sse, sse2

Memory: 4k page, physical 251508k(4096k free), swap 794620k(718472k free)

vm_info: OpenJDK Client VM (14.0-b16) for linux-x86 JRE (1.6.0_17-b17), built on Jul 5 2010 23:53:02 by “abuild” with gcc 4.5.0 20100604 [gcc-4_5-branch revision 160292]

time: Thu Sep 23 11:16:26 2010

#3

If you take a look at the system requirements for 11.3, you’ll see that 512K is below limits. What you see now IME is a memory problem.

#4

Knurpht wrote:

>
> If you take a look at the system requirements for 11.3, you’ll see that
> 512K is below limits. What you see now IME is a memory problem.
>
>
I guess this should read 512M and it is enough fotr opensuse 11.3 with
kde/gnome, I tested both on an old machine and it works well including
office software, burning, multimedia …
So this is most likely not the real problem.

The exception from java I can see is

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: requested 32756 bytes for

But java does not use the available physical ram/swap but is limited to what
is defined in the -Xmx parameter with which the jvm is started.

Either this is set too low or more likely this is set to such a high value
that the start of the jvm notices that the given amount of requested memory
can never be allocated.

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openSUSE 11.2 64 bit | Intel Core2 Quad Q8300@2.50GHz | Gnome 2.28 | GeForce
9600 GT | 4GB Ram
openSUSE 11.3 64 bit | Intel Core2 Duo T9300@2.50GHz | Gnome 2.30 | Quadro
FX 3600M | 4GB Ram

#5

On 09/23/2010 03:36 PM, johnmidl wrote:
>
> Have just found error log in Documents. Note the query re swap space - I
> have 776GB allocated. Here are the comments without the complete dump:

776 GB? No way.

> Memory: 4k page, physical 251508k(4096k free), swap 794620k(718472k
> free)

That is about 250 MB ram and about 800MB swap. Both values are very low. Add more ram if you can, or
at least, add more swap, to about 2 GB at least.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)