ports/113720: editors/openoffice.org-2.2.0 and 2.2.1 fail afterupgrade of xorg 7.2

Volker volker at vwsoft.com
Thu Jun 28 20:50:01 UTC 2007


On 06/28/07 22:04, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> From: Jung-uk Kim <jkim at FreeBSD.org>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:05:40 -0400
>>
>> I tracked it down and confirmed it is not OpenOffice.org's bug.  
>> Basically you it goes like this: OOo -> GTK+ -> Cairo -> 
>> libX11. :-(  Luckily these issues are fixed in the latest ports.  So, 
>> update your x11/libX11 and graphics/cairo and try again.  It should 
>> fix the issue.
> 
> Wow! That must have been quite a job to track down. Thanks!
> 
> I can confirm that OOo is operating correctly again on 2 of my
> systems. I won't be able to check the third until next week, but I feel
> pretty sure that it will be OK, too.

Updating cairo to at least version 1.4.8_1 fixes this issue.

But I still wonder why OOo aborted silently w/o core dumping or making
some noise on stderr. Also gdb hasn't been very helpful for this issue.


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