On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote:

> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [PLUG] Application Loads for Root, not for User
>
>   For a reason I do not know, OpenOffice.org will not start this morning,
> and I need to finish a document today. I was running OO.o-3.0.0, so I
> decided to see if upgrading to the latest version would fix the problem. It
> won't.
>
>   I got the -3.1.1 tarball, but my SlackBuild script fails to complete
> because it cannot stat a usr/ directory (but doesn't tell me the parent
> directory). Anyway, searching for the problem's source I discovered that
> /usr/bin/soffice is a link to /opt/openoffice3.org/program/soffice, and the
> application loads if I invoke it as root, but not if I try to invoke it as a
> user. /usr/bin/soffice has 777 permissions.
>
>   /opt is owned by root.root with 777 permissions.
>   /opt/openoffice.org and /opt/openoffice.org3 are owned by rshepard.users
> with 755 permissions.
>
>   What might have happened? More importantly, how do I fix the system so I
> can again invoke OO.o?
>
> Rich

If all else fails, run it in strace.  That should tell you exactly
which file it fails to stat.

Carlos
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