Comment 19 for bug 374708

Confirm bug on Karmic 64-bit using STOCK (not PPA or whatever) packages, and this is a show stopper for printing any kind of long and non trivial data. However, mfn's workaround in #13 worked for me and did not affect window freeze. (THANK YOU mfn!)

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.10"

$ uname -a
Linux ringo 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ apt-cache policy openoffice.org
openoffice.org:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
  Version table:
     1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages