On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: >> >> I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful. >> Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed >> early. >> >> It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my session, >> but shortly after that it simply dies. There's no dialog box, >> and nothing obvious in the log files. >> >> I've done revdep-rebuild, and its clean. Then I re-emerged >> openoffice-bin (which is what I use). To no avail. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> > > Have you upgraded python recently? I upgraded mine a while back and OOo > needed to recompile. You may want to run python-updater and check what it > says. It may be something else that OOo depends on that needs to recompile. > Not real sure since you use the binary version. > > Hope that helps. > > Dale >
You may be right. I tried to recompile OOo, and it pulled in 8 or so packages that OOo-bin hadn't. Unfortunately, the compile eventually failed. I'm running python-updater now. I'll report results. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
