There were pieces of an old version of OpenOffice lurking in my system.
I
removed them and reinstalled OpenOffice (from https://www.openoffice.org/)
and OpenOffice is working now.
Thank you all for your help.
Leslie
On 2023-07-19 12:49:48 Girvin Herr wrote:
> Leslie,
>
> I am running AOO 4.1.14 under Slackware Linux 15.0 with gtk2 and gtk3
> and I am not having this problem. I checked my system and although there
> is a "soffice.bin" file in "/opt/openoffice4/program/", there is no
> "soffice.bin-gtk-tqt-application" file there. I also did a "find" from
> "/" for "soffice.bin-gtk-tqt*" with no hits.
>
> That begs the question: where did you get your copy of openoffice?
>
> My policy is to download openoffice directly from the OpenOffice
> website. Maybe your copy is flawed or it has been altered by a 3rd party
> distributor.
>
> If you haven't done so, I would suggest downloading the known-good copy
> from the trusted source: https://www.openoffice.org/ . It is also a good
> idea to verify the downloaded file's integrity by checking the
> signatures. The links to the ASC, SHA256 and SHA512 files to compare
> with are on the download page:
>
> https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html
>
> HTH.
>
> Girvin
>
> On 7/18/23 21:00, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
> > Help! :-)
> >
> > I'm trying to get OpenOffice to work (required by another
> > software I want to use). I have successfully installed openoffice, but
> > when I try to start any of its components it fails with
> >
> > "The application gtk2-tqt-engine (soffice.bin-gtk-tqt-application)
> > crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT)."
> >
> > It looks like the cause is imbedded somewhere in OpenOffice? Not
> > sure. I've attached a trace.
> >
> > (The following response was sent by the supporters of the Desktop
> > Environment
> >
> > that I use:
> >> Looking at the stack trace the problem was deep within OpenOffice,
> >> probably
> >
> > while analyzing a true type font while cataloging fonts, perhaps while
> > preparing a menu of fonts.
> >
> >> The mention of gtk2 engine seems to be spurious. Nor does there seem to
> >> be
> >
> > any connection with TDE.
> >
> >> Possibly an OpenOffice bug or a broken font.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Leslie
> > --
> > Platform: Linux
> > Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64)
> > Desktop Environment: Trinity
> > Qt: 3.5.0
> > TDE: R14.1.0
> > tde-config: 1.0
> >
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