Thus spake Bob Tanner (tanner at real-time.com):

> Installing Star Office on 2.4.6, 2.4.7 and 2.4.8 locks the box hard under RedHat
> 7.0.
>  
> Anyone else seen this before or a solution to the problem?

I have a similiar issue.   People on the StarOffice forums said the problem is that SO
doesn't play nice with my video card (S3 Savage IX).  The fix I got is:

export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true

This value needs to be exported when I install or run StarOffice.

Rob