From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 Description of problem: Simply try to open / create a new document or try to start it. Nothing happens when you have no internet-connection. BAD: When you are working and you pull the network connector�, then try to create an empty docment. Nothin happens, OpenOffice (=OO) stalled and displays a grey window. If you haven't started OO and try to load a document or simply want to open the Software, the progress bar stopped stops at 100% and nothing happend. GOOD: When you have an internet-connection everything works fine. � or switch off the router Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1.1-4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Simply want to start OpenOffice. See description. Actual Results: Nothing happens. No error message or something like that. Expected Results: Should be simply working! With and without internet-conncetion (expensive) Additional info: $ rpm -qa | grep office kernel openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.1-4 openoffice.org-1.1.1-4 openoffice.org-libs-1.1.1-4 kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3
Do you have any network printers configured on your computer? OOo uses CUPS which seems to call gethostbyname() which is probably hanging your computer waiting for a timeout. #0 0x016fc266 in gethostbyname () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #1 0x0277fe1f in httpGetHostByName () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 #2 0x0277f921 in httpConnectEncrypt () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 #3 0x0277bca6 in cupsGetDests () from /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 #4 0x06473d98 in psp::CUPSManager::tryLoadCUPS () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libpsp645li.so #5 0x064648ab in psp::PrinterInfoManager::get () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libpsp645li.so #6 0x00591e4f in SalInstance::GetDefaultPrinter () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libvcl645li.so #7 0x00489c1a in Printer::GetDefaultPrinterName () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libvcl645li.so #8 0x0048a2dd in Printer::Printer () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libvcl645li.so #9 0x07e0232a in SfxPrinter::SfxPrinter () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libsfx645li.so #10 0xf36c9dfb in ?? () from /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program/libsw645li.so #
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