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rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Openoffice fails to start

Whenever I try to start openoffice, the splash screen shows briefly followed by this dialog box:

...and that's it. no messages on the console, no nothing. This is a fresh install of openoffice-base from pacman.

Anyone got the slightest clue here? I really need OO.o today

Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,896

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Re: Openoffice fails to start

tried logging out & in again ?

or downgrade to lower version from /var/cache ....

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rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Re: Openoffice fails to start

tried logging out & in again ?

Yup, same error.

or downgrade to lower version from /var/cache ....

This is the first time I've installed openoffice on this system.

FUBAR

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2004-12-08

Posts: 1,029

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Re: Openoffice fails to start

Did you try running it as root?

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Moo-Crumpus

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From: Hessen / Germany

Registered: 2003-12-01

Posts: 1,487

Re: Openoffice fails to start

Have a look at the hidden files in your home folder. I bet your .openoffice (if it is named like that, I am not sure) is owned by root. Delete it.

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rezza

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From: Edinburgh, uk

Registered: 2004-07-08

Posts: 237

Re: Openoffice fails to start

Thanks guys, yeah it was the .openoffice.org2 dir, it was owned by root. Looks like openoffice.org's first run wizard is b0rked.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Openoffice fails to start

/off topic
Does anyone know of an open source GTK based presentation maker that isn't Impress? If only I could find such a thing, I'd seriously think about no longer using OOo and switching to AbiWord/Gnumeric/other smaller, less bloated apps with better user interface design.

WigglerAway

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Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 14

Re: Openoffice fails to start

I had this problem as well so thanks for the tip. I'm quite impressed by how fast arch loads openoffice. It's dog slow in ubuntu and windows.