On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 05:05:25 +0100, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Jonas Karlsson wrote:
Hello!
I just recently tried to upgrade to 2.0.4 of OpenOffice.org, from 1.1.4
(I know, I'm a bit slow :) ). But I can't get it to launch.
Every time I try to launch it, either through the scripts or the bin
directly I get "Application cannot be started. An internal error
occurred". I had no such problems with 1.1.4 and if I revert to 1.1.4,
it works just fine.
I've googled and found that the problem people had, who had the same
error, was permission error in, or corrupted, their ~/.openoffice.org2
directory. So I've tried to move, remove, chown, chmod a+wrX it to no
avail. I even created a new user to see if there was something wrong
with my environment. But so far nothing has worked.
I installed it using the official 2.0.4 binary from openoffice.org and
doing 'rpm2cpio | cpio' on the rpms. I also tried the package available
for my ditribution, which was version 2.0.2, but it gave me the same
error.
The Linux distribution I use is GoboLinux. Before anyone protest about
the unconventional file structure (for beeing a Linux distribution),
consider that the package works on other GoboLinux system (and the
package is made from the official openoffice.org binary as well).
I have made a 'strace -f soffice.bin -writer', which is available here:
http://phpfi.com/180368
--regards
/Jonas Karlsson
I shan't blame GoboLinux. I intend to try it when the distro advances
to the version mentioned by the founder as the main milestone. I think
it's version 2.
Version 2.0.4 of OpenOffice may not have been a felicitous choice
because it is regressive.
Regressive? In what way?
Leaving that aside, my dim recollection of moving to the 2.0.x series
was that there was an invitation at some point to transfer your settings
from 1.1.x. Did that occur?
No, even if it did I have tried to start from a clean slate by removing
all settings for OOo 2.0.x and 1.1.x
Even so, from what you say, the software does not even get as far as
creating a settings folder in a new user log-in.
Yes, it does. The settings folder is created.
Your distro's version should work. That's a matter to take up in that
quarter. The Slackware package (.tgz) is at
http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=9970. You may be able
to use that or find a script rpm2tgz to convert the rpms to a tarball.
cpio, of course, should work as well.
I don't think there's anything wrong with the distro package, as other
using the same distro can use the package. There's something with my
system that OOo 2.0.x doesn't like. I have tried another OOo package
provided by another GoboLinux user. Of course the package works on his
system, but not on mine. That package was the hungarian version of OOo
2.0.4.
I could try to install the slackware package, but I think I will get the
same error.
In both my Linux OS's, the OOo installer created a link to the programme
folder in /etc which houses system configuration files. I don't know
the significance of that.
Are you saying that you have a link /etc/program ->
/opt/openoffice-2.0/program (if the latter was your install directory)?
Do you have / need the equivalent, did you have root (or equivalent)
permissions when you installed and have you tried installing at a user
level? Is the executable executable by "other"?
I have superuser privileges on my system and installed it into a directory
equivalent to /opt. I have not tried to install it at user level. Do you
think that will make a difference?
The OOo insiders have climbed down enough to offer a tarball instead of
rpms "Beginning in src680 m188". It will not be an official release,
just part of the build process:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=44102
Ok, seems like we're getting somewhere. Hopefully next release will be in
a more friendly format for systems not relying on the rpm package manager.
But I don't think that the package format is the problem here, unless
there's a requirement that I don't have installed and that I'm not made
aware of since I don't use the rpm installer.
We are not without options, of course. I intend to look at KOffice soon.
I regret that I cannot make any sense of the strace printout. My system
is not using the same pid numbers and that is so much gobbledegook to
me, anyway.
Well, I submitted the trace for two reasons.
First to show that, although the "strange" directory structure, all files
and libraries were found by OOo.
Seconldy maybe someone can see what the "internal error" is. I mean, that
is not a verbose error message.
--
/Jonas
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