Open Office seg fault problem

Don Christensen djc at cisco.com
Sat May 22 05:49:32 CEST 2004


I just ran OOo 1.1.1 today under RHEL3 with xfce4 pretty much from
CVS HEAD without any problems that I noticed.

-Don

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> not running redhat (running gentoo), but OOo-1.1.1 runs fine under xfce4 
> here just fine.  no reason why it shouldn't, as OOo doesn't know about 
> DEs...
> 
>    -brian
> 
> Anthony Ewell wrote:
> 
>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>
>>> i'm not entirely sure why you think this is an xfce-related 
>>> problem...  i can't see how it could be.
>>>
>>>    -brian
>>
>>
>>
>> I have no clue.  That was why I was asking.  Do you have OO-1.1.1
>> runing on your XFce without problems?  Are you running Red Hat and
>> which version?
>>
>> --Tony
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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


-- 
Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc at cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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