From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: I upgraded from RH 7.3 to 8.0 and selected to install the OpenOffice RPMs. When I run OpenOffice as a regular user, nothing happens. If I type the command ooffice from a terminal, the word Abort is printed and nothing else happens. Doing an strace -f -v on /usr/lib/openoffice/programs/setup shows that the program is looking for the file /usr/lib/openoffice/programs/uno_writer.rdb which seems missing. The program appears to run normally when run as root, however. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install OpenOffice package 2.Open terminal window 3.Type ooffice as a regular user Actual Results: Prints the word Abort on the terminal and does nothing else. Expected Results: Actual execution of OpenOffice Additional info: My machine is an IBM ThinkPad A30p
For some reason openoffice took more than 2 minutes to start on my P4 system with 2GB of RAM as an regular user, at which point I had decided that it was not starting. BUT when I removed my .openoffice directory and started from scratch it started coming up immediately! Perhaps you can try that.
I tried rm -rf .openoffice and rm -rf .openoffice .sversionrc .user60.rdb. In both cases when I run ooffice I get the splash screen, but then the work Abort is printed on the terminal and nothing else happens.
I have similar problem the difference is that I used the tar ball from openoffice.org 1.0.1 not the redhat RPM. It was working fine on 7.3. but with 8.0 does not start. I filed a bug on openoffice and they said it is a known issue. They said Redhat changed something that prevents OOo to start. I got the messase "An unrecoverable error has occured. All the files can be recovered at OO restart <<ok>>"
Then they are wrong. OpenOffice.org binaries don't work because their libdb*.so library was miscompiled.
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