Re: Solaris x86 7 and gnome-session

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri aracnet com>]

>  I had to remove the patch  107649-09  and to do this I also had to
> remove the 107659-04 107657-04 107655-05 107653-03 107651-05. Once these
> were removed then gnome-session  runs again. Reading the README's for
> these the main problem with removing these patches was fixing a bug with
> StarOffice 5.1. The bug was that when quiting StarOffice 5.1 then the X
> server would die. I presume this is with Xsun. I am running XIG server
> at present and this does not have the problem. People runnung the Sun X
> server and StarOffice might want to be careful with removing these
> patches.

In the kernel list, they were talking about this.  (the staroffice bug)
The kernel guys wanted star office to fix the bug in teh software rather
than a workaround in the kernel.  Looks like here is yet another reason
why we should have no workarounds for software like StarOffice.

	sri