From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050322 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-6 Description of problem: I just upgraded openoffice using yum from 1.9.84-1 -> 1.9.87-1. Attempted to run writer and no go. So I opened a shell and typed: bash-3.00$ openoffice.org-1.9 no suitable windowing system found, exiting. I deleted my old .openoffice.org folders: bash-3.00$ rm -rf .openoffice.org .openoffice.org1.9.84/ .openoffice.org2.0/ bash-3.00$ rm -rf .openoffice.org* bash-3.00$ openoffice.org-1.9 -writer no suitable windowing system found, exiting. I started a new session (Xsession) and still no juice :-( I am running gnome w/ metacity. I have done no special modifications at all. bash-3.00$ rpm -qa | grep metacity metacity-2.9.21-2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-core-1.9.87-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open terminal 2. Type openoffice.org-1.9 -writer 3. Error: no suitable windowing system found, exiting. Actual Results: no suitable windowing system found, exiting. Expected Results: I expect OpenOffice to start up with writer. Additional info: Here is output of env: bash-3.00$ env SSH_AGENT_PID=5199 HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID= TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash HISTSIZE=1000 GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/vijay/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 WINDOWID=44040292 QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt-3.3 USER=vijay LS_COLORS= GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-TzbDXz/socket SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-CvcDqJ5162/agent.5162 KDEDIR=/usr SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/5162 USERNAME=vijay PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome MAIL=/var/spool/mail/vijay GDM_XSERVER_LOCATION=local PWD=/home/vijay INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc GDMSESSION=gnome SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass SHLVL=2 HOME=/home/vijay GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default LOGNAME=vijay DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-oJBedQwJdh,guid=572a424254afdc40f9a17f78746f2200 LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s DISPLAY=:0.0 G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1 COLORTERM=gnome-terminal XAUTHORITY=/home/vijay/.Xauthority _=/usr/bin/env OLDPWD=/var/log
Ok! I did some searching on the net and the only info I found is a mention of this bug on the kde website. (http://dot.kde.org/1101482981). According to that post: "You need libstartup-notification installed, otherwise it fails to run with "no suitable windowing system found, exiting." So I check to see if I have startup-notification installed: [root@localhost ~]# rpm -qa | grep startup startup-notification-0.8-2 [root@localhost ~]# ldconfig -v | grep startup libstartup-notification-1.so.0 -> libstartup-notification-1.so.0.0.0 So looks like it is installed! I also did some searching on openoffice.org website but didn't really get any results. I should mention that when I had originally installed FC4t1 on this box, I installed KDE and Gnome. After upgrading all the packages today I decided to uninstall KDE. So I did: yum remove kde-base. It prompted me to remove the dependencies (all KDE packages) and I gave it the green light. When I initially installed this box, OO.org was working.
I'm experiencing the same issue, though my box was upgraded from FC3 via yum. I also have startup-notification installed. I'll try to install KDE and see if that fixes it..
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 151800 ***
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