Comment 13 for bug 180198

@chris
Sorry I made some confusions with the ubuntu versions as I have a couple of machines...
The machine that has this problem is an Ubuntu 8.04 (hardy) with the latest official updates and I'm using openoffice version 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 from the normal repository.
On a Laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 but not the latest updates this problem doesn't exist and 1 week ago this problem didn't exist on my main machine too.
Because of that I think it must be a problem with a patch that was released few days ago.

The workaround I posted above worked for me but shows that its not easy to reproduce :-/

Because of the nature of my workaround, I think that this document has some hidden chars in it and this interrupts the normal startup of openoffice but not that it crashes...

If I can do some logs for you, just tell me how and I do my best.