From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020625 Description of problem: openoffice-1.0.0-4 does not start up. The screen output is the following: sarantis@gallagher:~$ ooffice Checking for existing user installation ... ... NOT FOUND Performing first-time installation for user ... mv: cannot stat `/home/sarantis/.sversionrc': No such file or directory /usr/bin/ooffice: line 35: 1613 Segmentation fault /usr/lib/openoffice/program/setup -R:/etc/openoffice/autoresponse.conf ln: creating symbolic link `/home/sarantis/.openoffice/user/work' to `/home/sarantis/My Documents': No such file or directory ... DONE /usr/bin/ooffice: cd: /home/sarantis/.openoffice/user/wordbook: No such file or directory ln: `./en_US.aff': File exists ln: `./en_US.dic': File exists grep: /home/sarantis/.openoffice/user/wordbook/dictionary.lst: No such file or directory Starting OpenOffice.org ... /usr/bin/ooffice: /home/sarantis/.openoffice/soffice: No such file or directory/usr/bin/ooffice: exec: /home/sarantis/.openoffice/soffice: cannot execute: No such file or directory Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.execute ooffice or oowriter or anything in openoffice 2. 3. Actual Results: openoffice has not started. It created though some directories under ~/.openoffice Expected Results: openoffice should have started Additional info:
Reproduced I have seen this under 7.3 the other day and now under the beta, both using openoffice-1.0-4. It doesn't say much, displays and removes the splash screen and then does nothing. You can't ctrl-c or ctrl-z out of it. You must kill it from another terminal window.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67495 ***
*** Bug 68156 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***