Willie Wong wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 09:52:39AM -0800, Penguin Lover Drew Tomlinson squawked:
There are no error messages. When starting as a user, the splash
graphic just sits there and the CPU usage is basically 100% for both X
and oosplash.bin. When starting as root, the splash graphic starts and
then a progress bar at the bottom of the splash graphic progresses in
about 10 seconds and OpenOffice starts. The progress bar never
progresses when starting as a user. I have to kill oosplash.bin with
signal 15 after starting as a user to return my system to normal.
Some more Googling turned up this post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-623771-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-25.html?sid=1514fa8e48f6a12a86c6c66e920161e9
I found that when I su to root, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined. As a
user, it is defined as:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32/xorg:/usr/lib64/xorg
If I unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a user terminal, then OpenOffice starts.
So what is LD_LIBRARY_PATH and why am I seeing this behavior?
See
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Admin/ld-lib-path.html
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/LD_LIBRARY_PATH
So the question is one of hunting down where this variable is set.
Your .bashrc? Perhaps grepping through /etc/env.d?
Thank you for your reply. The culprit appears to be
/etc/profile.d/ati-fglrx.sh. So if setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not a
good idea, why does the ATI driver do so? And more importantly, how can
I workaround this issue?
Thanks,
Drew
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