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Baraclese

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 48

[Solved] Openoffice does not start

Ever since the upgrade to openoffice 3.0 it won't start anymore. I just tried openoffice-base-devel to see if it helps but the same behavior occurs again. There are no error messages on the console. I see the splash screen for a short moment and can see that the loading bar is about 1/3 filled and then it just disappears. I'm using the xfce desktop and have the jre installed. Any ideas? Or any way to get some kind of verbose output on the console?

Last edited by Baraclese (2008-12-29 11:27:04)

R00KIE

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From: Between a computer and a chair

Registered: 2008-09-14

Posts: 4,734

Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

Try to delete the hidden folders that hold the old and new configuration folder of openoffice in you home folder and try running it again. This usually does the trick, if a program doesn't work then try deleting the config folder, usually solves the problem

Last edited by R00KIE (2008-12-22 19:01:45)

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Baraclese

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 48

Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

I already tried that, it didn't help though *tear*

BinkyTheClown

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From: The Circus

Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 85

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Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

Try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome in the terminal and launch soffice from it.

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monstermudder78

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Registered: 2008-05-18

Posts: 120

Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

Consider yourself lucky and use Abiword and Gnumeric instead lol.  Sorry I don't have anything more constructive to add.

AndyRTR

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From: Magdeburg/Germany

Registered: 2005-10-07

Posts: 1,641

Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

Try export OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome in the terminal and launch soffice from it.

source the included profile file or relogin. then the export is obsolete.

if it keep failing please report your desktop and any message you get when starting from command line.

Baraclese

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 48

Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

I started up soffice.bin in gdb and can confirm that I'm getting a seg fault from /opt/openoffice/basis-link/ure-link/lib/libgcc3_uno.so. What's the easiest way to recompile open office with debugging symbols? I know about ABS, but should I put the -g flag in the CFLAGS variable? or is there a configure option for open office?

Baraclese

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Registered: 2008-05-28

Posts: 48

Re: [Solved] Openoffice does not start

Apparently I was linking against a selfcompiled libstdc++ from the gcc svn which broke things.