Public bug reported: I'm in 8.04 with all updates done as of today, and somewhere in the last few day openoffice started failing, i.e. a short splash screen appears and then goes away. Running any openoffice application from the command line is the same, and no output is generated in the console window. I did apt-get purge "openoffice*" followed by apt-get install openoffice.org. I also tried various things I saw on the net like removing the openoffice.org-gtk package and removing my .openoffice.org2 from my home directory, but nothing changes the behavior. I did gdb soffice.bin and it shows a seg fault. Sorry I don't have the debugging symbols. Hope this helps. I've read from others that I can install the Sun version and it will work, but I'm going to hold off until I really need it. Hopefully in the next week or so a fix will be propogated. Seg faults are easy to debug:)
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread 0xb50db720 (LWP 24328)] 0xb4f2b4ea in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libgcc3_uno.so (gdb) where #0 0xb4f2b4ea in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libgcc3_uno.so #1 0xb6966cf5 in __gxx_exception_cleanup (code=_URC_FOREIGN_EXCEPTION_CAUGHT, exc=0x1) at ../../../../gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:55 #2 0xb688365b in _Unwind_DeleteException (exc=0x1) at ../../../gcc-4.3.1/libgcc/../gcc/unwind.inc:276 #3 0xb6965be0 in __cxa_end_catch () at ../../../../gcc/libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_catch.cc:127 #4 0xb76e556a in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libutl680li.so #5 0xb76e6f22 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libutl680li.so #6 0xb76e7f5c in utl::UcbLockBytes::CreateLockBytes () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libutl680li.so #7 0xb76f6442 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libutl680li.so #8 0xb76f6f3f in utl::UcbStreamHelper::CreateStream () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libutl680li.so #9 0xb6b958e9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #10 0xb6d54809 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #11 0xb6d54a84 in SfxDispatcher::SfxDispatcher () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #12 0xb6b90bc1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #13 0xb6b83e4a in SfxApplication::GetOrCreate () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #14 0xb6d82a4e in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #15 0xb6d82daa in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so #16 0xb73bd373 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 #17 0xb73b9180 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 #18 0xb73ba07b in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 #19 0xb73bce18 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 #20 0xb73b9180 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 #21 0xb73ba0e9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 #22 0xb4d3cbcd in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/bootstrap.uno.so #23 0xb4d377d7 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/bootstrap.uno.so #24 0x08078041 in desktop::Desktop::Main () #25 0xb7ccedb6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680li.so #26 0xb7cceeb5 in SVMain () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680li.so #27 0x08068909 in main () ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New -- openoffice fails to start https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/262799 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs