Hi, My previously working OpenOffice is now only accessible as root. Still appears in the KDE desktop start menues but doesn’t respond unless I’m logged in as root. Any advice how I can resolve this would be greatly appreciated.
haydonde openSuse 11.3 P4 -2G
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What happens if you start soffice from the command line as a non-root
user? Post the output.
Good luck.
On 02/17/2011 07:36 PM, haydonde wrote:
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> Hi, My previously working OpenOffice is now only accessible as root.
> Still appears in the KDE desktop start menues but doesn’t respond unless
> I’m logged in as root. Any advice how I can resolve this would be
> greatly appreciated.
> haydonde openSuse 11.3 P4 -2G
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On 02/18/2011 03:36 AM, haydonde wrote:
> Hi, My previously working OpenOffice is now only accessible as root.
> Still appears in the KDE desktop start menues but doesn’t respond unless
> I’m logged in as root. Any advice how I can resolve this would be
> greatly appreciated.
i do not know what has damaged your OpenOffice in which way, however
it is often the case when a folks log into KDE as root, that suddenly
one day strange problems (like, applications will ONLY run when logged
in as root, or the user can’t log in at all) pop-up and ruin the day…
it is because of problems exactly like you describe that i say you
should never log into KDE/Gnome/XFCE or any other *nix-like graphical
user interface desktop environment as root…
doing so 1) opens you up to several different security problems if you
(for example) browse the net, 2) too many too easy ways to damage your
system no matter how careful your actions (for example: well
documented cases of unintended change of ownership of ~/.ICEauthority
and ~/.Xauthority from user to root sometimes occurs), 3) and, anyway
logging into KDE/etc as root is never required to do any and all
administrative duties…
so, always log in as yourself, and “become root” by using a root
powered application (like YaST, File Manager Superuser Mode) or using
“su -”, sudo, kdesu, or gnomesu in a terminal to launch whatever tool
is needed (like Kwrite to edit a config file)…read more on all that
here:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Login_as_root
http://tinyurl.com/ydbwssh
http://tinyurl.com/6ry6yd
additionally: after logging into KDE/Gnome/etc as root, if you
experience problems (for example, with uncommanded file ownership and
permissions changes) and if you can provide us with details of what
you were doing while you were logged in as root, that would help us
identify if there’s a bug that needs to be fixed…thanks for your help…
sorry, i have NO idea how to unravel all the damage to your system,
nor restore OpenOffice to a useful application…
–
DenverD
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[NNTP posted w/openSUSE 11.3, KDE4.5.5, Thunderbird3.0.11, nVidia
173.14.28 3D, Athlon 64 3000+]
“It is far easier to read, understand and follow the instructions than
to undo the problems caused by not.” DD 23 Jan 11
Thanks. Only logged in as root to see if openoffice would launch when it wouldn’t start as an ordinary user but appeared to be intact. 
Thanks, but nothing happens. No output.
Did you try running OOo in a different user account to be sure?
Yes. - opened new (different) user account and everything works. - looks like the opening link for the original user must be damaged?
Try deleting the OOo config files in your account by the command
mv ~/.ooo3 ~/.ooo3-old
Launch OpenOffice after that and tell us what happens.