On Sunday 11 December 2005 07:55, Rohan Dhruva wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently i had to reinstall arch. One the previous installation, i had > built the openoffice-base package using "makepkg" from the "official" > /var/abs/ ... Just because i did not want to download 100MB again, having > already downloaded the installer RPM's previously. It worked just fine. > > However, on my new install, clicking on the Openoffice.org Calc or Writer > or any other menu entry, the splash screen is shown. After sometime, a box > pops up, saying "The application cannot be started - an internal error > occurred." Thinking that it was a problem with makepkg, or some mistake on > my part, i downloaded the 100mb .pkg.tar.gz from the official ftp mirror. > > But in vain, the problem still persists. Starting "soffice -writer" from a > terminal, it just sits there, doing nothing, giving no error message. Doing > a strace shows some message about "waitpid(-1, " .. i can give the complete > strace output if required. Openoffice works on my pc, i have tried it on > other distros. > > I don't know why it is not working on this new install. Any suggestions or > pointers will be appreciated.
doing a makepkg is just fine if you are using the latest PKGBUILD and all.. (you know blah blah .. ;) heh) remove your .openoffice or a folder that looks something like that, Start openoffice with full path may be.. /opt/openoffice/program/swriter .. I remember someone on irc having the same issue.. and the above solution helped. -- Vinay S Shastry _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
