There were pieces of an old version of OpenOffice lurking in my system. I removed them and reinstalled OpenOffice (from https://www.openoffice.org/) and OpenOffice is working now.
Thank you all for your help. Leslie On 2023-07-19 12:49:48 Girvin Herr wrote: > Leslie, > > I am running AOO 4.1.14 under Slackware Linux 15.0 with gtk2 and gtk3 > and I am not having this problem. I checked my system and although there > is a "soffice.bin" file in "/opt/openoffice4/program/", there is no > "soffice.bin-gtk-tqt-application" file there. I also did a "find" from > "/" for "soffice.bin-gtk-tqt*" with no hits. > > That begs the question: where did you get your copy of openoffice? > > My policy is to download openoffice directly from the OpenOffice > website. Maybe your copy is flawed or it has been altered by a 3rd party > distributor. > > If you haven't done so, I would suggest downloading the known-good copy > from the trusted source: https://www.openoffice.org/ . It is also a good > idea to verify the downloaded file's integrity by checking the > signatures. The links to the ASC, SHA256 and SHA512 files to compare > with are on the download page: > > https://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html > > HTH. > > Girvin > > On 7/18/23 21:00, J Leslie Turriff wrote: > > Help! :-) > > > > I'm trying to get OpenOffice to work (required by another > > software I want to use). I have successfully installed openoffice, but > > when I try to start any of its components it fails with > > > > "The application gtk2-tqt-engine (soffice.bin-gtk-tqt-application) > > crashed and caused the signal 6 (SIGABRT)." > > > > It looks like the cause is imbedded somewhere in OpenOffice? Not > > sure. I've attached a trace. > > > > (The following response was sent by the supporters of the Desktop > > Environment > > > > that I use: > >> Looking at the stack trace the problem was deep within OpenOffice, > >> probably > > > > while analyzing a true type font while cataloging fonts, perhaps while > > preparing a menu of fonts. > > > >> The mention of gtk2 engine seems to be spurious. Nor does there seem to > >> be > > > > any connection with TDE. > > > >> Possibly an OpenOffice bug or a broken font. > > > > TIA, > > Leslie > > -- > > Platform: Linux > > Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 (x86_64) > > Desktop Environment: Trinity > > Qt: 3.5.0 > > TDE: R14.1.0 > > tde-config: 1.0 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org