OpenOffice Crashes on Start in 11.3

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#1

Recently OpenOffice has started crashing on me when loading the program. The splash screen will appear for a moment then the KDE crash handler comes up. Here’s what I get when launching from the console:

slomojo@linux-yiyy:~$ ooffice
KCrash: Application ‘soffice.bin’ crashing…
sock_file=/home/slomojo/.kde4/socket-linux-yiyy/kdeinit4__0

I’ve tried deleting the .ooo3 directory in my home directory but that doesn’t seem to help. Also, I’m running with Sun’s JDK in case that makes any difference.

I know that OpenOffice was working fine for me immediately after my fresh install of 11.3. I only use OpenOffice once every couple of weeks so I’m not sure if there was a specific update or anything that broke things for me.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

#2

Same here. I tried running in konsole:

tim@linux-mouv:~> ooffice
/usr/lib64/ooo3/program/soffice: line 96: 27750 Bus error “$sd_prog/…/basis-link/program/pagein” -L"$sd_prog/…/basis-link/program" ${sd_pagein_args}
tim@linux-mouv:~>

Can’t find anything on google. It was working in the clean install. Something went wrong I guess, my system is fully up-to date.

Tried re-installing the open office packages, but It’s still the same.

Tim

#3

Hello,

I have run into the same problem as Slomojo.


~]$/usr/lib64/ooo3/program/soffice
KCrash: Application 'soffice.bin' crashing...
sock_file=/home/c111269/.kde4/socket-soli31888c/kdeinit4__0

Can’t say much more since it is a fresh install of OpenSUSE 11.3.

Did you find any fix?

#4

the fork libreoffice works on my gnome 11.3 64 bit set up
i do not have the suse goOffice or the oo office from the oo site installed so…

#5

Could you please explain what you mean by this? What is libreoffice? What is goOffice?

#6

LibreOffice is the fork of OpenOffice.org, after OpenOffice.org’s owner Sun was sold to Oracle: Welcome to The Document Foundation! - The Document Foundation
There also are some different ‘streams’ in OpenOffice.org, AFAICS JohnVV is referring to those.

#7

Thanks a lot for the hint. For some reason I was thiking that it is some LIBrary that I additionally need and that ‘fork’ refers to process management rather than project management. I really couldn’t make neither fish nor fowl out of it. I also ought to keep myself more informed as to the open software developments or just place the right terms in google…

Anyway, I installed libreoffice and it seems to work so I will give it a go. Many thanks for the suggestion. Although I am still a bit annoyed that OO crashes.

#8

Oracle is turning OO into a “free” limited and not free full Office application

Go office was a split that took place a bit back .For adding new features into OO sun then started adding some of go-Office “new things” back in This basicaly was a mess – but a WORKING mess , and most were happy .
Enter Oracle who wanted all the sun dev team to leave the open doc foundation .A mass quitting took place and libre office was formed .

– a bit very simple and short description , this whole thing is a “soap opera” –

the whole thing would take a small book for the details

but just a guess i think that the errors people are getting with the OO in the repo is a kde bug … all the errors posted here are running on KDE ( i am using Gnome )