http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=118239
Issue Type: DEFECT
Summary: A general error occurred while accessing your central
configuration.
Classification: Code
Product: framework
Version: version58
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: ui
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
QAContact: [email protected]
Summary: When trying to start any OO component (oowriter, ooimpress, oocalc
etc.) a message pops up
OpenOffice.org3.3 - Fatal Error
The application cannot be started.
A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration.
This is the only symptom. When trying to launch the application from the Linux
command line, no messages of any kind are seen, aside from the popup.
System: Fedora 14 x86_64, updated using yum update.
RPMs include the version information 1:3.3.0-20.6.fc14 (x86_64)
Additional comments:
1. This problem has been widely reported on various news groups, for both
Windows and Linux. It appears to be an ongoing problem both in OO3.3, AND in
LibreOffice 3.3 and 3.4. See bug 33475 at bugs.freedesktop.org.
In fact, when OO3.3 stopped working, I installed LibreOffice 3.4 (stable), and
got precisely the same error message. Neither OO no LO works on my account, at
present.
2. On Linux, removing, respectively, ~/.openoffice.org or ~/.libreoffice does
no good. New directories of the same names get created, and the same error
message pops up.
3. This bug happens on an account by account basis. That is, it happens to each
user on the system, independently, after one or more uses of OO or LO. An
important point here is that once either program is broken, both are broken.
If I create a new user account, the first time I try to use OO or LO, the
program works. After one or more launches, suddenly both no longer work at all.
4. This is an old and widespread bug. If you google the error message, you see
numerous people complaining about this problem for at least a year, with both
OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
5. I have not installed any extensions.
6. I see the bug running on GNOME, KDE, and LXDE desktops, same machine, same
accounts.
7. I have checked /var/log/secure, /var/log/messages, with no messages recorded
at the time OO or LO was launched.
So the status is, on my system, I can run neither OO nor LO work at all. Zilch!
Perhaps a good approach would be for someone with access to the source code to
grep the error message and see which part of the code generates this message.
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