OOo 3.0 with OpenSUSE 11.0 language problem

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After searching for days in the web and trying a lot of suggestions of reinstalling, downgrading, renaming… I have to post my problem:

Because I need support for the Microsoft 2007 files, I decided to upgrade my OpenOffice to version 3.0.x. But my OpenSUSE 11.0 runs fine with KDE 3.5.9, so I think, there is no need to upgrade to 11.1.

I just added in yast the OpenSUSE OOo repository

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/OpenOffice.org:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.0/

and made a update as usual. No errors, everithing looks fine. Started OOo3 as root, still no problems.

But if I want to start OOo as a normal user, I always get the following error:

“Die Anwendung kann nicht gestartet werden. Die Sprache der Benutzeroberfläche kann nicht bestimmt werden.”

In (my) English: Can’t start the application. Can’t determine desktop language.

I tried to delete the .ooo3 folder in my home, reeinstalled OOo3, made a downgarade to 2.4.1 (works fine for all users) and a new upgrade - still the same problem.

Because root is able to work with OOo3, I think there is somewhere a problem with the rights of the normal users. But where?

Thank you for helping,

IanCh

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I have the same issue in 11.1 with KDE 4.2

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I don’t have the problem using KDE4.2 and the information appears to be in ~/.ooo3/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu

Check if that file is present and if it gives the locale near the beginning of the file.