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nesta

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From: Albuquerque

Registered: 2003-11-21

Posts: 30

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openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

If you've installed openoffice or openoffice2 and can run:
/opt/openoffice[2]/program/soffice  as  *root*  fine, but as a normal user, experience:

"the application cannot be started. An internal error has occured" or a similar message, then look into the permissions. 

I noticed my /opt/openoffice2 directory was owned by some strange user and group # (perhaps the maintainers UID??) and not root.users as it should be. So execute:

for openoffice1 users

cd /opt/
chown -R root.users openoffice/

& for openoffice2 users

cd /opt/
chown -R root.users openoffice/

hope this helps. Forget about the DRI stuff  if that wasn't it

Brice

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wabi

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Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 72

Re: openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

tried this but still not working

btw for openoffice2 users the path is /opt/openoffice2

colnago

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2004-03-25

Posts: 438

Re: openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

If you have had previous open office installations, try removing (or renaming) your ~/.openoffice.org2 directory.  You might hae old ~/.openoffice.org1... ones too.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

Sorry to ressurrect this old topic, but I have this problem, and neither solution works. First time I started OOo I got the "internal error" message; now soffice executes but does nothing - no splash, no trace of a GUI, no command line output.

But as root, it works fine.

What the hell is going on?!

Snowman

Developer/Forum Fellow

From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

I tried it and also got this error.
I removed the .openoffice.org2 and OpenOffice.org1.1.5 directories from my home, ran /opt/openoffice/program/soffice and it worked.

The file  .openoffice.org2/user/config/javasettings_Linux_x86.xml in my home directory had root ownership. It might have caused this error. :?

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

Doesn't have root ownership here. And I never had OOo 1.x installed.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: openoffice won't start as normal user --SOLVED--

Hmm. I restarted, and it works all of the sudden. :shock: