Open Office seg fault problem

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Sat May 22 05:01:22 CEST 2004


i'm not entirely sure why you think this is an xfce-related problem...  
i can't see how it could be.

    -brian

Anthony Ewell wrote:

> Hi All,
>
>     I am trying to get Open Office 1.1.1 installed on a
> Red Hat 9 server running XFce 4.0.3.
>
>     First, an editorial comment:  :-)
>
>     Okay, now that that is out of the way.  As root, if I
> run "./setup" from inside the temp directory I de-tarred
> the tar ball to, I get a graphic with an open box
> on it and an install progress bar runs all the way
> from left to right.  Then nothing -- it vanishes.
>
>     If I run "./install" from the same directory,
> a bunch of stuff gets copied to /usr/local/openoffice1.1.1.org.
> When I go to that directory and try to run any of the
> programs (spadmin, soffice, setup) I get "segmentation fault"
> and my very own, not so little, core dump (I feel so blessed!).
>
>     Does anyone have any clue what I am doing wrong?  I
> am not about to put gnome on a server!
>
>     Oh, and I had the same problem with 00 1.1.0.
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
>



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