Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:55:23 +0000 From: Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@free.fr> To: freebsd-openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem starting office Message-ID: <200710230755.24864.alex.thurgood@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <20071022160458.J52700@neu.net> References: <20071022160458.J52700@neu.net>
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Le Monday 22 October 2007 16:10:44 AN, vous avez =E9crit=A0: Hi, > > [root@R51 /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.2.1/program]# ./soffice > no suitable windowing system found, exiting. > > > I am running Gnome 2.18.1 on FreeBSD 6.2 stable. I am not sure how to > troubleshoot this, please advise what other information can help solve > this. Any help is appreciated. Apparently, you are trying to start OOo as root. A default FreeBSD 6.2=20 installation doesn't allow root accounts to start a graphical environment,= =20 which is why OOo moans that it can't find any windowing system. Alex
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