if i start openoffice.org 2.0 (from app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.1) the splash screen appears but the application hangs. this problem doesn't have anything to do with java. it seems that reiser4 couldn't handle something oo.o did at start. this is from dmesg: Kernel BUG at fs/reiser4/plugin/file/tail_conversion.c:29 invalid opcode: 0000 [1] PREEMPT last sysfs file: /class/net/eth1/ifindex CPU 0 Modules linked in: usbcore eth1394 Pid: 10184, comm: soffice.bin Tainted: P M 2.6.16-rc1-mm4 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff801c8317>] <ffffffff801c8317>{get_exclusive_access+31} RSP: 0018:ffff810007cfde78 EFLAGS: 00010282 RAX: ffff81001e4d6730 RBX: ffff810006415670 RCX: 00000000f3ab8000 RDX: 00000000f3ab7000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff810006415670 RBP: ffff81001e4d66c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff810014dd5f40 R10: 0000000000000293 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: ffff810006415670 R13: ffff810007cfdf50 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00002ab0122a5b00(0000) GS:ffffffff805f7000(0063) knlGS:00000000f66606c0 CS: 0010 DS: 002b ES: 002b CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 00002ab012776000 CR3: 000000000cbe9000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process soffice.bin (pid: 10184, threadinfo ffff810007cfc000, task ffff810010dd9730) Stack: 00000000f3ab7000 ffffffff801c78b7 0000000000000000 ffff810014dd5f40 000000011de53440 000000000000bd18 0000000000000000 ffff810006415700 ffff810007cfdf50 00000000f3ab7000 Call Trace: <ffffffff801c78b7>{write_unix_file+753} <ffffffff80168181>{vfs_write+175} <ffffffff801682d0>{sys_write+69} <ffffffff8011c0b4>{cstar_do_call+27} Code: 0f 0b 68 78 71 45 80 c2 1d 00 48 89 df e8 9a 5a 25 00 c7 43 RIP <ffffffff801c8317>{get_exclusive_access+31} RSP <ffff810007cfde78> i filed this as critical bug since reiser4 isn't able to sync anymore after this incident, which means that nothing that is done in the file system gets written on the disk. some details about the environment: ospranzn linux # emerge --info Portage 2.1_pre4-r1 (default-linux/amd64/2006.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r2, 2.6.16-rc1-mm4 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-rc1-mm4 x86_64 Mobile AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 2800+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre15 dev-lang/python: 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa amd64 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dga dvd dvdr eds emboss encode firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal imap imlib ipv6 ithreads java jpeg linguas_de lzw lzw-tiff mad mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nsplugin ogg opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tetex thunderbird tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis xml xml2 xpm xv zlib elibc_glibc kernel_linux userland_GNU" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
None of Gentoo-supported kernels includes reiser4. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-kernel.xml#doc_chap2
