Description of problem: Writer and spreadsheet die almost immediately doing anything at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-core-2.2.1-18.3.fc8 How reproducible: Start up spreadsheet. Edit anything in the entry field. Also dies opening up most files. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: This is related to gtk2 and gtk2-engines (Bug 241833) Backing out to gtk2-2.10.11-7.fc7.i386.rpm and the associated engines file makes the problem disappear. Contrary to bug 241833, this seems to be the only application that aborts on my system. Upgrades to gnome/compiz/libwnck mean I can't back out easily any more. In preferences, turning on "Use opengl", disabling Java, disabling spell checking and disabling help tips seems to fix the problem.
I strongly suspect cairo, see bug 243811 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 243811 ***