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Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 10:23 pm Post subject:
This step of the installer is actually trying to convert all of the fonts installed on the computer to work with OOo, not just lucida (the script is misnamed...it used to convert only one, but now does all). This step will take a while if you have a lot of fonts. You may want to bring up CPU Monitor to check if something's still going on. If you're CPU is at zero percent and there's no disk activity, then it's hung. Also make sure you'r enot out of disk space.
There's no direct way to skip it if it is causing problems...
The only way to skip it I can think of offhand is to do a temporary hack and get rid of fondu before running the installer by temporarily moving it out of the way and replacing it with something harmless...e.g.
Posted: Sun May 29, 2005 9:48 am Post subject: tried the fondu moving trick - install still hanging
I'm having the same issue that was posted above regarding 'converting fonts' and am seeing a freeze at the same point. I'm trying to install OOo1.1.2X11 for Mac OSX. I have OSX 10.3.9 on a PowerBook G4. I currently have OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 installed and have for over a year now.
After reading 'openstep's post for the first time I figured that the lag during font conversion might be normal, so before trying this workaround I left the install sitting at that step for nearly 2 hours... never advanced although running 'top' on the terminal showed a steady 15-25% CPU usage by the installer throughout this period of time. I don't know how to check disk transfer activity so I'm not sure if it was just stuck processing in a loop with no data transfer to disk. After 2 hours I just 'kill' ed the install process by number from the terminal.
I tried the workaround suggested by 'openstep' and ran
su
<adminpassword>
mv /usr/local/bin/fondu /usr/local/bin/fondu_real
ln -s /bin/echo /usr/local/bin/fondu
I then ran the installer and got the exact same freeze at the exact same point. Any ideas?
Also, if I am able to install OO without 'fondu' through some other type of hack/trick, will I then have no fonts within the application? Or will there at least be a default set of fonts. I'm not a very advanced user of OO so the basic fonts will be fine.
This thread, and Ed's reply, are from the 1.0.3 era, which came well before Terry posted the useful work-around that's listed in the Installing OpenOffice.org 1.1.2 FAQ.
Which just goes to show...I wasn't crazy when I had to use 3 different versions of fondu to successfully convert all of my fonts....
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