Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 09:47:55 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: paul+fbsd@it.ca Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org 2.2.1 quits on launch Message-ID: <20070704094755.43c6b7fd@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20070703121408.GA357@it.ca> References: <20070703121408.GA357@it.ca>
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:14:09 -0400 Paul Chvostek <paul+fbsd@it.ca> wrote: > Hiya. > > I just did my Xorg upgrade, which included an upgrade of OpenOffice.org > to version 2.2.1. > > Now, when I launch OO, it complains not at all, but opens no windows. > It doesn't take much time: > > > time openoffice.org-2.2.1 > 0.727u 0.267s 0:02.06 47.5% 301+915k 1+0io 0pf+0w > > > > The shell wrapper (/usr/local/openoffice.org-2.2.1/program/soffice) is > definitely running soffice.bin. But the binary does nothing except > return an exit value of 78, which is *not* trapped by the shell wrapper. > And I don't know what 78 means. > > I've seen some hints in other operating systems' forums that OO does > strange things when fonts with questionable metrics are installed, so > I've uninstalled a bunch of things that I can probably do without, and > replaced the rest with `portupgrade -fR xorg-fonts-7.2`, to no avail. > > Running soffice.bin in an strace produces gobs of output that I don't > know how to interpret. The last few "useful" lines from strace refer to > libraries like libglib, libiconv, etc, so I've reinstalled glib2 and > libiconv and some others, also to no avail. > > I'm in 6.1-RELEASE-p17. Java (diablo-jdk1.5.0) works standalone, TTF > fonts work in other apps, and OO was built with these in /etc/make.conf: > WITH_EVOLUTION2=yes > WITH_TTF_BYTECODE_ENABLED=yes > WITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE=yes What X toolkit? QT / KDE? GTK? > > Any suggestions? Has anyone else seen and solved this? > yes, see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-June/151700.html and the thread it belongs to. _________________________ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "Religion is what the common people see als true, the wise see as false, and the rulers see as useful." Seneca I speak for myself, not my employer. Contents may be hot. Slippery when wet. Reading disclaimers makes you go blind. Writing them is worse. You have been Warned.
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