Bug 143692

Summary: Oowriter gives unhelpul error on startup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Nigel Horne <njh>
Component: openoffice.orgAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Description Nigel Horne 2004-12-24 09:43:00 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5)
Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0

Description of problem:
When attempting to start Open office this message appears:

"The application cannot be started.
A connection to the central configuration could not be established."

Re-installation does not fix the problem.

Not only can I not start OOo on FC3, but also the error message is no
help - it gives no indication on how to fix the problem.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openoffice.org-1.1.2-10.i386.rpm

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to start oowriter
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Actual Results:  See above

Expected Results:  Open office writer should run

Additional info:

Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2005-01-27 16:21:37 UTC
I have never seen that error message, is there anything unusual at all about
your openoffice.org configuration that you are aware of ? perhaps moving your
.sversionrc and .rhopenoffice1.1 directories to a backup directory elsewhere
might allow you to start OOo

Comment 2 Nigel Horne 2005-01-29 13:21:51 UTC
I've just down a yum update. Now the message I get is:

The application cannot be started.
The filter configuration seems to be corrupted. Please reinstall your office.



Comment 3 Dan Williams 2005-05-24 13:29:35 UTC
Which version of OOo are you running, and does this still happen with the latest
1.1.3-11 version that's in FC3 updates?