Not sure exactly why this fixed things, but I thought I'd mention it here in
case someone else was having the same drama.
HISTORY:
No matter what user or Xserver I used (local/remote) any open-office program
would result in an "Aborted" message. Stack traces didn't reveal anything
that made sense, but it WAS a hard error and happened every time.
However, running /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice would bring up OOwriter
where otherwise it would fail using the /usr/bin/openoffice wrapper. So it
seemed there was a bug in /usr/bin/openoffice. Good thing that the
/usr/bin/oo* wrapper is well documented! - kudos to the packaging peoples!!
THE FIX:
Anyway I wont bore you with the details, but it seems there was a mis-match
with the font paths specified in /etc/X11/XF86config-4 and
/usr/bin/openoffice setting the fonts for OOo. Specifically this section
from "/usr/bin/openoffice":
# Default font path. This is used if SAL_FONTPATH_USER is not defined.
DEBOO_FONTPATH="/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc/;/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/;\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled;/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled;\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/;/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID;/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/;\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/;/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/;\
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType;\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType;\
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/kochi;\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/larabie-straight;\
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/larabie-uncommon"
SAL_FONTPATH_USER=${SAL_FONTPATH_USER:-"$DEBOO_FONTPATH"}
export SAL_FONTPATH_USER
See the line with "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"? Well I have (had) the
non-symlinked paths in XF86config, ie "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"!
I did a bit of confirmation using "xset +fp ..." and "xset fp rehash" etc.
Once I had the X font path and the /usr/bin/openoffice font paths in sync
-BINGO!! I could launch with "oowriter" from an xterm or using the menu
items in KDE.
I edited /usr/X11/XF86config-4 so the font paths used the symlinked
/usr/lib/X11/fonts/???? to match the OOo wrapper (/usr/bin/openoffice) and
did a reboot (I use KDM so wanted to make sure it wasn't going to choke on
reboot). After everything came back up (phew!) all my OpenOffice packages
worked again!! YAY!! Both command line and menu options are working.
Hope this helps someone :P
Cheers,
James
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