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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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