Bibliography Crashes OOo

[newbieofusers]

Hi,
A bit of a taxing problem, here. I am running OO 3.2 on a netbook with a small screen, which means that I can't get access to the second dialogue box that I'm about to describe to you.

For essays, I need to be able to do a bibliography. I check google, and get http://www.tutorialsforopenoffice.org/t ... phies.html, which appears massively complicated, but I decide to give it a try.

Fire up OO, and then for some reason, it asks me if I want to recover a document. OK, I don't recall losing one, but why not? I click yes, get a blank Writer document, and then do Tools - Bibliography. I then get the second dialogue box asking me if I want to recover a 'no name' document. If I hit ENTER, OO crashes. If I hit ESC, OO crashes. I can't get past that.

Can someone help?

Thanks.

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

See [Solved] Crashes on clicking the "bibliography" menu item.

Please add '[Solved]' at the beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

[newbieofusers]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

See [Solved] Crashes on clicking the "bibliography" menu item.

Please add '[Solved]' at the beginning of your first post title (edit button) if your issue has been fixed.

Hi Hagar,
Thanks for that. I tried the solutions suggested at that link. First of all, deleted my $HOME/.openoffice.org and then restarted OOo.

Same problem.

I'm not skilled enough to know whether I have 32 or 64 bit Ubuntu running. However, if I look at the version of Java in OOo, I see '1.6.0_20', and FYI...

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Linux myhost.com.home 2.6.31-21-generic #59-Ubuntu SMP Wed Mar 24 07:28:56 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

Thanks again for any advice...

[Hagar Delest]

You're running a 32bit system.
On a 64bit system, you would had something like

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Linux HP-G72-Notebook-PC 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:27:26 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[newbieofusers]

You're running a 32bit system.
On a 64bit system, you would had something like

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Linux HP-G72-Notebook-PC 3.0.0-13-generic #22-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 2 13:27:26 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

OK, so... is my Java version correct?

[Hagar Delest]

Seems so indeed.
Try the vanilla version perhaps: [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co.