Re: Mailmerge crash (and I have to send out a mailing tomorrow!!!!)

Hi Frank,

Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb:
> Hi Norbert,
>
>   
>> I got the mailing out using the windows version of OO which doesn't seem
>> to have that problem.
>>     
>
> Fine.
>
>   
>> Sending the mails manually wasn't such a good idea. >2.000 mails !!!!
>>     
>
> Ooops.
>
>   
>> I didn't let OO to send a crash report because it didn't ask me!
>>     
>
> Hmm, that's sad, crash reports can often give a good first idea what's
> going wrong.
>
>   
>> If I find some time, I'll try to track down this problem to a more
>> informative point.
>> Is there a way (maybe some hidden commandline option) to start OO to let
>> it produce some trace / debug output ??
>>     
>
> None that I know, sorry.
> Since you're not using the Windows version, I assume we talk 'bout
> Linux? In this case, if you feel halfway familiar with it, you might
> want to attach gdb to the soffice.bin process, until it crashs, and then
> see if gdb is able to produce a meaningful backtrace. Sometimes, seeing
> this also helps knowing what's wrong.
>
> Ciao
> Frank
>
>   

Intresting! That problem seems to exist only under KDE 3. I did a logout
(from KDE3) / login (into KDE 4) and was able to send an email without
chrashing OO.

(If it's of any interest: SuSE Linux 11.1, 64bit)

Norbert