On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 11:06, Austin Godber wrote:
> Frank Mandato wrote:
> >  I have been following this list for quite a while and would like to 
> > know if I have to start from scratch, clean install, or if I can just 
> > switch over to Fedora without too many problems.
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 	I have done an upgrade from RH 8.0 to Fedora on my main home machine.  It does 
> lots of things, MySQL, apache, Entertainment center (TV Video Card, play DVDs), 
> vmware .... lots of stuff.  After the upgrade (which was performed with the 
> Fedora install CDs upgrade option) most everything worked still.  However, there 
> have been small naggy things and I am eager to find the time to do a clean 
> install.  One of the most annoying things is the OpenOffice problems ... it is a 
> lot less stable now, I don't know if its the Fedora build I have been using or 
> something else.  I can reliable crash OO by clicking on the font dropdown menu 
> in Write ... and lots of Word Files and other OO files crash it upon opening. 
> In general I find it discouraging.  As this machine is primarily a desktop that 
> is a problem.  It was the first upgrade I had done in years ... and went 
> smoothly ... but the end result was less than desireable and I won't be 
> perfoming an upgrade again.
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it seems that the real fix is to delete each users /home/.openoffice
directory (rm -fr ~/.openofice)

preferences (minimal) will be rebuilt and it will run well - that is
because of changes in openoffice

Craig