Ubuntu
openoffice.org package

OpenOffice does not start: abnormal early exit ...

Bug #121266 reported by Fabio Ornellas
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-core

I've just installed Ubuntu 7.04 and typed to open OO Calc:

fabio@morpheus:~$ ooffice -calc

** (process:10154): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...
fabio@morpheus:~$

The splash screen appears but at the end of the progress the above message. The same with Writer, but no message on console.

I am really confused about this, OO is one of Ubuntu's main software, how can this happen?

Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 19 21:28:25 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Uname: Linux morpheus 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

It's working fine here. Try killing process 10154

sudo killall 10154

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Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas) wrote :

this process seems to be the /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -calc or something like that. This is the crashing process.

BTW, calling it gives me a segfault.

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

It works perfectly here.

uname: Linux tito-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas) wrote :

I am sure it work on many systems.

I installed Ubuntu with settings to Brazilian Portuguese and also installed some language packages. Now I removed all OpenOffice packages, installed only openoffice.org package (and dependencies) and guess what: it works.

I will try to find out what package combination makes it break, if I find, I will post here.

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Fabio Ornellas (fabio-ornellas) wrote :

I just reinstalled everything from openoffice and it started working. I could not identify what package combination or what during the installation process broke the software.

This bug can be closed unless someone else find the same problem.

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Roberto Sarrionandia (rbs-tito) wrote :

Looks like an unsuccessful install.

Changed in openoffice.org:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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Tek Ang (tekang) wrote :

Hi,

My issue started a few days ago when I was playing around with Screenlet/Desklet/Cairo Docks. I installed them and then un-installed them.

Prior to this event, my OO worked fine. After that, when I click on an OO file or use the command line (ooffice -calc), the splash screen appears, and that's it.

On the command line, I did not receive any message at all. I have tried to uninstall, reboot, install, reboot... and it didn't seem to work.

It appears that during when I was un-installing one of the docks, I might have removed a file that OO needs.

Any thought/help?

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