On Tuesday 14 December 2004 7:55 am, Rene Engelhard wrote: > which version? Must've been ancient... Where did you install it from?
It was 1.1.x, installed as usual via apt-get. The likely source of any oddness would be a system upgrade from sarge to sid, which was previously done. OOo _was_ working after that upgrade. > > The interesting part would probably be from *which* version you upgraded... > I'm not exactly sure, but I think it was 1.1.1 > Hmm.. It does work when you install it from scratch, doesn't it? I.e. > backup your .openoffice and .sversionrc, kill them and start setup... > > It may help to get the .openoffice directory tar.gz'ed or so to look... > Tarred my user ~/.openoffice then deleted the original, renamed ~/.sversionrc. Still same error run as user and as root. (/root/.openoffice and /root/.sversionrc do not exist) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13540 Nov 30 19:10 /usr/bin/openoffice MD5 sum: f1bcc5cf68e6204f1044abc59a0913d2 In that file, lines 25-27, I have: # this string should be exactly as in ~/.sversionrc OOVERSION="OpenOffice.org 1.1.3" VER= Is that correct? In particular, should $VER be null? -- Carl Brown

