Post by OGR » Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:21 pm
When is this annoying behavior going to be fixed?
Yes, killing the multiple instances of "soffice.bin" in the Task Manager will "fix" it, but this should not be happening in the first place.
Open Office 4.1.11 on Win 7 Pro RoryOF Moderator Posts: 34721 Joined: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:30 pm Location: IrelandPost by RoryOF » Tue Dec 13, 2016 9:44 pm
This happens because the program has terminated or been terminated abnormally, frequently due to user error.
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.15 on Xubuntu 22.04.4 LTS OGR Posts: 9 Joined: Mon Mar 07, 2016 10:27 pmPost by OGR » Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:29 pm
User error? You're kidding, right?
You click the "X" in the upper right corner of the program window to close the program, just like every other Windows program that's ever been produced. How in the world can you make an error doing that?
Open Office 4.1.11 on Win 7 Pro Hagar Delest Moderator Posts: 32759 Joined: Sun Oct 07, 2007 9:07 pm Location: FrancePost by Hagar Delest » Tue Dec 13, 2016 11:18 pm
Well, I quite agree with OGR, I can't see how it can be a user error. I don't experience this very often (I would say once or twice a year on my Windows 7 machine). I may be a problem with Windows itself, not freeing the soffice task.
Not sure if this is linked, but with the portable version (still 4.1.2), when I close AOO, it doesn't stop and at next startup, when I open AOO, I've an error message saying that it did not terminate properly.
Post by Wasatch Rebel » Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:59 am
I am having this same issue only there is no soffice mentioned in Task Manager processes. I think I may have done something when my Comodo Firewall earlier in the day said soffice wanted to do something and I denied it, not knowing at the time what soffice was. How would I solve the issue of OpenOffice not opening because of what I just did?
OpenOffice 4.0 on Windows 7 robleyd Moderator Posts: 5198 Joined: Mon Aug 19, 2013 3:47 am Location: Murbko, AustraliaPost by robleyd » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:59 am
Have you tried the good old 'Reboot it" technique?Slackware 15 64 bit
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Post by RusselB » Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:37 am
Since you think that you may have done something with Comodo Firewall (and if robleyd's suggestion of just rebooting doesn't work), then you'll need to get into the settings for the firewall.
I'm not familiar with Comodo, so I don't want to give specific instructions on what to look for and where.
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Post by Wasatch Rebel » Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:16 am
Tried the reboot method already. Didn't work. I will need to get into Comodo and figure it out. There's probably a Comodo forum somewhere. Btw, thanks for responding.
OpenOffice 4.0 on Windows 7 judithq Posts: 2 Joined: Sun May 27, 2018 6:12 pmPost by judithq » Sun May 27, 2018 6:30 pm
I opened Task Manager. What is a soffice? and what does it look like? Open Office 4.13Post by Zizi64 » Sun May 27, 2018 7:35 pm
I opened Task Manager. What is a soffice? and what does it look like?The word (abbrevation) "soffice" is the name of the exacutable part of the office suite application. I suppose the name was inherited from the S tar Office -age.
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The Apache OpenOffice and the LibreOffice are integrated office suite applications. That means: there is not separated applications for the Writer, for the Calc and more. There is one integrated application in the pack, and it will be launched with various parameters, and so it becomes Calc, or Writer or Draw.
This is the reason, if you see "soffice"-s only if the task manager, but not "Calc.exe" nor "Writer.bin"
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Post by Hagar Delest » Sun May 27, 2018 9:44 pm
judithq please don't multipost, especially in old topics.
See: Please read the Survival Guide for the forum.
Topic locked since solved for OP.