From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050308 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-5 Description of problem: The OpenOffice apps produce the following error (after a min or two) when attempting to start: javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! no suitable windowing system found, exiting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run oowriter from the shell 2. Wait for output to be produced 3. Note failure message Additional info: This was attempted directly after a fresh install. "firstboot" also failed when booting (see bug 151577). Probably not related but thought it was worth mentioning.
I am experiencing a very similar problem. When I first installed fc4 test1, I was able to use oowriter (and all of the oo components). However after yumming to openoffice.org build 1.9.87-1 I get the error message " no suitable windowing system found, exiting."
After updating to build 1.9.87-2 via yum, the problem appears resolved--at least for me? Eric have you tried this?
install the i386 startup-notification *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153129 ***