It appears all of the information you have about this bug relates to when .openoffice and .sversionrc have been deleted. Here's what I have found when they *are not* deleted:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% ooffice /usr/bin/ooconfigimport: line 11: 4586 Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice${VER}/program/ /usr/lib/openoffice${VER}/program/"$progname" "$@" Segmentation fault (core dumped) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]% gdb -c core GNU gdb 6.0 Copyright 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-linux". Core was generated by `/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. 0x00000000 in ?? () (no debugging symbols found)...(gdb) [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ltrace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/configimport.bin rtl_allocateMemory(320, 0x40298ea8, 0x401dad68, 0x403f3930, 0x08053f48 <unfinished ...> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/lib/openoffice/program]$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/configimport.bin 2>&1 | tail close(3) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x405f7000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0x405f7b60, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 munmap(0x4024b000, 58494) = 0 set_tid_address(0x405f7ba8) = 4700 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x402613f0, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ This isn't much help, I know, but if you have an unstripped version of the openoffice.org packages avaiable with full debug information, I can get you a useful backtrace - I just don't have the time or diskspace to *build* an unstripped version of OpenOffice to test.