Hello,
I have the sames problems :
StarOffice 5.2 : the following file could not be found!
/home/himiko/office52/user/sofficerc
Openoffice : like you too !
From Mon, 28 Jan 2002 , do you solve this ?
Have you got some answer from lists.q-linux.com ?
Thank.
You wrote :
I've been getting this problem when I reinstalled StarOffice 5.2 and/or
OpenOffice build 641 on my home PC (Athlon, kernel 2.4.17-xfs, Debian
Potato
r5). Since last Friday, whenever I reboot the machine, the SO/OO install
just
gets wrecked when I try to run StarOffice or OpenOffice by the next
session.
Here's the error message in OpenOffice:
The application cannot be started. The configuration service is not available. Do
you want to start the setup application to repair your installation? [yes][no] In
StarOffice it was kinda more descriptive (it reads the initialization script file
instead of the normal, like OpenOffice...) In the StarOffice 5.2 installation, the
following file could not be found! /home/himiko/office52/user/sofficerc StarOffice
5.2 requires this file to be executed correctly. With the aid of the setup program it
may be restored. Click 'Repair' to let the setup program repair your 'StarOffice 5.2'
installation. Click 'Cancel' to terminate the installation now. [Repair][Cancel] I
believe this can be a mitigating factor: Power was tripped Friday at our place. When
it did came back, my /home (XFS) developed a file hole in .gnome-errors, which
skyrocketed my harddisk consumption to 99% from 67%. Deleted the file using the XFS
tools, but df didn't report filesize normally until I rebooted. Then this problem
started appearing. I checked in StarOffice. the sofficerc file is still there.
There should be no reason for this message to appear then. I tried the "repair"
option, but unfortunately it doesn't repair anything at all. Did the same in
OpenOffice (the repair thing). It doesn't repair. Running again the setup program as
a normal user results in a segmentation fault in OpenOffice. Running the setup
program again as a normal user in StarOffice 5.2 can repair the installation, but the
line "Initializing the StarOffice components for the first time after installation"
still appears even after opening and closing StarOffice repeatedly. Invoking
OpenOffice from an Xterm mentions: OpenOffice.org641/soffice: //HACK: //No //such
//file //or //directory. Even when I "touched" HACK in / and make it have perms 777
it still doesn't repair. The tool fired up but it quitted immediately w/o
notification. I believe it also segfaulted. Saw nothing in the logs as to what
happened which caused this. tried importing user info from StarOffice to OpenOffice
and vice versa, but it doesn't fix. I tried reinstalling StarOffice and OpenOffice
already repeatedly since last Friday night, but it still doesn't work. Tried the
network (-net or /net) install too (installed it in /usr/share, /usr is also a
separate XFS partition), but it still doesn't work, as a reboot is all it takes to
wreck my install, as well as the local install but this thing still happens. The
problem manifested itself starting last Friday. I already had back then a working
install of StarOffice 5.2 which I don't have too much of complaints... Removing the
local setup files and the user52.rdb and .sversionrc then reinstall doesn't work also.
Tried the arduous process of fsck and XFS repairs. No avail. Even mkfs then copy
back again all the data for /home doesn't solve the problem. Any idea how to solve
this? I'm still working on what the hell really happened, and any suggestion would be
extremely welcome on how will I isolate the problem's source. This doesn't happen
with the other programs - only with StarOffice and OpenOffice, so it's kinda weird
what has really happened. I've been able to run them without any problems back then.
Thank you! Paolo Alexis Falcone
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