I'm not seeing this problem on RH 9 with openoffice.org-1.1.0-2   I can create
and delete tables in a preexisting database with no problems.  I'll give this a
try also in FC test3 when I reinstall a test machine later today..

Currently installed on RH 9:
$ rpm -qa |grep -iE '(odbc|openoffice)'|sort
MyODBC-2.50.39-11
openoffice.org-1.1.0-2
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-2
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-2
php-odbc-4.2.2-17.3
unixODBC-2.2.3-6
unixODBC-devel-2.2.3-6

I can now confirm that OOo dies when trying to create a new table on FC test3
with all necessary RPMs updated from rawhide. As noted previously, I have no
problems with openoffice.org-1.1.0-2 on RH 9.  I'm attaching the generated error
report.

$ rpm -qa |grep -iE '(openoffice|odbc)'|sort
MyODBC-2.50.39-17
openoffice.org-1.1.0-3
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-3
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-3
unixODBC-2.2.5-9

Created attachment 95585 [details]
text report generated by OO before dying

Changing bug to unixODBC  after Denice  saying that database access worked 
correctly with OOo 1.1 on RH9 i downloaded and installed the versions of 
unixODBC from RH 9 on FC test3 and everything worked as expected. the only 
change being unixODBC and unixODBC-kde  

I downloaded the updates for FC 3 this morning to test the new version of
openoffice 1.1.0-4  with odbc stuff.  It still dies if you try to create new
tables from the Data Administration interface (Tools -> Data sources).  However
if you access the data sources from an open document; ie:
 View -> Data Sources
Then you can can create and delete tables.

I can confirm Denice's findings  when using View -> Data Sources  as opposed to
Tools -> Data Sources everything works as expected.  this is with
unixODBC-2.2.5-9 however as stated earlier using unixODBC-2.2.3-6 from RH9
everything works as expected.  Does anyone know if the two seperate menu
functions call the same code to create the tables?  if they dont they should and
it should be fixed upstream. If however they share the code then what can i do
to determine the cause.
i currently have installed

openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-4.4
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-4.4
openoffice.org-1.1.0-4.4
unixODBC-2.2.5-9
unixODBC-kde-2.2.5-9
myODBC-2.50.39-17

my MySQL server is on a RH 8.0 server 

heres the console output from when OOo crashes

oowriter
Starting OpenOffice.org ...


Fatal exception: Signal 11
Stack:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3[0x122a78]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3[0x122c05]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsal.so.3[0x122cce]
/lib/tls/libpthread.so.0[0x88bf18]
/usr/lib/libodbc.so.1(SQLDriverConnect+0x3df)[0x1cc3dbf]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libodbcbase2.so(_ZN12connectivity4odbc11OConnection14OpenConnectionERKN3rtl8OUStringElh+0x1d8)[0x1b8eb96]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libodbcbase2.so(_ZN12connectivity4odbc11OConnection9ConstructERKN3rtl8OUStringERKN3com3sun4star3uno8SequenceINS8_5beans13PropertyValueEEE+0xa0d)[0x1b8f961]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libodbcbase2.so(_ZN12connectivity4odbc10ODBCDriver7connectERKN3rtl8OUStringERKN3com3sun4star3uno8SequenceINS8_5beans13PropertyValueEEE+0x220)[0x1b8b36a]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libmysql2.so[0x1c77d03]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbpool2.so[0x1adff9d]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbpool2.so[0x1adf964]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbpool2.so[0x1ae46e4]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba645li.so[0x1a8bff7]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba645li.so[0x1a8f2f8]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba645li.so[0x1a86497]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba645li.so[0x1a8f60a]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdba645li.so[0x1a8ea5b]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x165efd3]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x173c01c]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x173bf68]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x165cb70]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x15e84fb]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x15e63a3]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x17446f4]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645li.so[0x304c244]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645li.so[0x30521b2]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645li.so[0x3045988]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libfwk645li.so[0x30600ca]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x169473a]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x16942d7]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x16c5f69]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x16c66ad]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x16c6686]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN7ToolBox6SelectEv+0x4e)[0x77d3872]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN7ToolBox23ImplHandleMouseButtonUpERK10MouseEventh+0x157)[0x77ce6b7]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN7ToolBox8TrackingERK13TrackingEvent+0x45)[0x77cf499]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN6Window11EndTrackingEt+0x155)[0x77ee9df]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_Z20ImplHandleMouseEventP6Windowthllmtt+0x1010)[0x77f10c0]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_Z19ImplWindowFrameProcPvP8SalFrametPKv+0xc6)[0x77f391e]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN12SalFrameData16HandleMouseEventEP7_XEvent+0x46a)[0x7852bbe]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN12SalFrameData8DispatchEP7_XEvent+0x135)[0x7854abb]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN10SalDisplay8DispatchEP7_XEvent+0x29a)[0x7880c56]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN10SalDisplay5YieldEh+0x13c)[0x788099a]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so[0x787c76d]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN7SalXLib5YieldEh+0x423)[0x787b1c7]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN11SalInstance5YieldEh+0x34)[0x7884256]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN11Application5YieldEv+0x61)[0x76ac0e7]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN6Dialog7ExecuteEv+0x1e9)[0x77a0d3f]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN12SfxTabDialog7ExecuteEv+0x42)[0x3d01fa0]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libdbu645li.so[0x16f6f7d]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsvt645li.so(_ZN3svt17OGenericUnoDialog7executeEv+0x23a)[0x7b931c2]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libofa645li.so(_ZN17OfficeApplication13BaseExec_ImplER10SfxRequest+0x244)[0x34030f4]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libofa645li.so(_Z37SfxStubOfficeApplicationBaseExec_ImplP8SfxShellR10SfxRequest+0x26)[0x34010f0]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN13SfxDispatcher9Call_ImplER8SfxShellRK7SfxSlotR10SfxRequesth+0x5a1)[0x3c4a213]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN13SfxDispatcher8_ExecuteER8SfxShellRK7SfxSlotR10SfxRequestt+0x174)[0x3c4b61e]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN11SfxBindings12Execute_ImplER10SfxRequestPK7SfxSlotP8SfxShell+0x350)[0x3c5b540]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN11SfxBindings12Execute_ImplEtPPK11SfxPoolItemttS3_h+0x3ca)[0x3c5b122]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN11SfxBindings7ExecuteEtPPK11SfxPoolItemttS3_+0x65)[0x3c5ace1]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN14SfxVirtualMenu6SelectEP4Menu+0x543)[0x3c77d8f]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx645li.so(_ZN14SfxVirtualMenu14LinkStubSelectEPvS0_+0x26)[0x3c77844]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN4Menu6SelectEv+0x5e)[0x77a7b72]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN4Menu14ImplCallSelectEPS_+0x18)[0x77ab93c]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so(_ZN4Menu22LinkStubImplCallSelectEPvS0_+0x26)[0x77ab91c]
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl645li.so[0x77f34a2]
Aborted

Dennis,

Did you install the OOo debuginfo package?

no i didnt't but can do if it will help. 

dennis, can you try reproducing wtih latest OOo?  Thanks...

I gave it a shot with the latest oOO on a FC 2 test1 system updated
with the latest from devel (this morning). It still dies, and bug
buddy comes up. 

# rpm -qa |grep -iE '(openoffice|odbc)'|sort
MyODBC-2.50.39-18
openoffice.org-1.1.0-28
openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.0-28
openoffice.org-libs-1.1.0-28
unixODBC-2.2.5-11
unixODBC-devel-2.2.5-11

Let me know what I can do.
  ..denice

This might be the same as #110595. If unixODBC >= 2.2.8 is used does
it still crash ?

i currently have installed unixODBC-2.2.9-1 and it is working as 
expected.