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Bug 76117

Summary:	openoffice setup dies for any user
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Hans Ecke <hansecke>
Component:	openoffice.org	Assignee:	Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0
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Description Hans Ecke 2002-10-17 00:03:36 UTC

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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.

Comment 1 Hans Ecke 2002-10-18 17:44:01 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2004-02-27 15:54:17 UTC

fixed