From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux; , en_US, en) Description of problem: After installing a fresh 8.0 system (including openoffice), openoffice does not start for any user. Terminal shows that the setup program segfaults. Umask/permission problems? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.install a fresh 8.0 including openoffice 2.try starting ooffice from the command line 3.get the error message Actual Results: Got an error message complaining that setup segfaulted. A quick "strace" showed that setup dies after reading in many fonts, wherever that might be. Expected Results: setup should come up. Additional info: I think this is an umask or permission problem. I usually run with 0026 (root) or 0066 (user). The problem can be fixed with chmod ugoa+rX /usr/lib/openoffice chmod ugoa+rX /etc/openoffice Now openoffice runs perfectly.
Sorry, I made a mistakes in the description: Instead of chmod ugoa+rX /usr/lib/openoffice chmod ugoa+rX /etc/openoffice it should read chmod -R ugoa+rX /usr/lib/openoffice chmod -R ugoa+rX /etc/openoffice And I made the comment about the umask because the default umask for RedHat is much more permissive than 066/026.
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