What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Philip Webb wrote: 080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu

Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User)

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and

ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash

Re: ATI Drivers Sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Was Re: What is LD_LIBRARY_PATH? (Was Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User))

2008-02-22 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 05:34:54PM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked: LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts. So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior? See

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Mark Knecht
OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5 kernel. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. I have found some posts that suggest deleting ~/ooo-2.0 so it will be recreated with appropriate permissions. However this has not worked for me. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Mark Knecht wrote: OpenOffice or OpenOffice-bin? I'm running 2.3.1 here on my AMD64. No problems that I've seen so far. - Mark The actual OpenOffice that took many hours to compile on my AMD Turion TL-50 1.6ghz laptop. :) Thanks, Drew On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:51 PM, Drew Tomlinson

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.3.1 Won't Start As User

2008-02-21 Thread Philip Webb
080221 Drew Tomlinson wrote: I emerged OpenOffice 2.3.1 on my amd64 install running gentoo-2.6.23-r5. I can start OpenOffice as root but not as a regular user. How are you starting it ? Do you enter eg 'oocalc' from a CLI or do you click on an icon in a start menu ? If the latter, check that