I got the same problem recently and wondered what the problem was so I did an strace and found a bunch of grabage. Near the end of the strace I had two access() fail.
The 2 access that failed were trying to access: /var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend/registry/data/org/openoffice /.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend/registry/data/org/openoffice I had to created the directories from here onwards: /var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache/ /.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.configuration.PackageRegistryBackend/ That seemed to get everything working. Sorry I don't have the strace output I wrote over it in haste. I can delete the directories and run ooffice again. I was looking at this bug http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2568329 and the strace that was attached had a similar problem probably for a different reason. If missing files or directories Open Office should point that out instead of giving a cryptic message. like forking main binary. [pid 5899] open("/usr/lib/charset.alias", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) ..... Process 5898 detached -- openoffice: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/184266 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
