[cw-discuss] office 2000 stops working

[Immanuel CRC Office]

Alex Zelter wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu Feisty kernel  2.6.20-16-generic and crossover 
> standard version 5.0.3. I have used crossover for years to run office 
> 2000 under linux and have never had any problems. Since changing my OS 
> to feisty fawn, however, I have had my office stop working three times. 
> On a fresh feisty install, I install crossover and then office 2000. All 
> works well for some time. Then word starts to take a long long time to 
> open. Eventually word and powerpoint both stop working (they crash all 
> the time and take ages to open). The first time this happened I tried 
> uninstalling crossover and reinstalling it (including deleting 
> ~/.cxoffice). This did not help. In fact, I could not reinstall office 
> 2000. The installer just hung part way through. I also tried downloading 
> the latest trial version of crossover, but it had the same problem. In 
> the end I reinstalled the entire OS. This fixed the problem. However, I 
> am now having the same problem again. Word is suddenly taking ages to 
> open again. Obviously I can't keep reinstalling my OS to fix this issue 
> so I must find out what the problem is. I have never delved deeply into 
> the working/debugging of wine before, so I would greatly appreciate any 
> advice about what I can do to try to determine what is going on. I no 
> longer have support from codeweavers, as although I have bought 
> crossover several times in the past my current version is old enough for 
> my support to have run out.
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
> 
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I don't know if this is the same issue I had or not.

Alex, did you find the processes became interruptible when you tried to 
kill them, and that Office would crash whenever you did anything once 
they were open?

I've just got a new Ubuntu kernel and was going to re-install and test 
(when I have time).

Crystle

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Crystle Numan
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