Installed openoffice-bin Any time I try to run any of the programs (I am using the command line so I get SOME output), I see: $ oocalc ** (soffice:27404): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 262144000): May lead to memory leak and poor performance. GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 1048576000): May lead to memory leak and poor performance. Needless to say, that immediately brings the system to a crawl consuming all (several gigabytes) of the memory and swap. $ emerge -p --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.33-gentoo-r2 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.33-gentoo-r2-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5_CPU_750_@_2.67GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:30:19 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.30-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -mcx16 -mpopcnt -msahf -msse4 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -mcx16 -mpopcnt -msahf -msse4 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise /usr/portage/local/layman/sunrise" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="64bit R X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa amd64 ass audiofile berkdb bwscheduler bzip2 cairo caps cdio cdr cjk client consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus dga directfb downloadorder dri dvd dvdnav dvdr encode exif expat fam fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran gcj ggi gif glibc-omitfp gmp gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk hal handbook hardcoded-tables iconv idea imagemagick imap imlib infowidget ipfilter ipv6 jabber javascript jbig joystick jpeg kde lcms libcaca libnotify libwww live lm_sensors logviewer lzma mad matroska mbox mdns-bundled memlimit mmx mmxext mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib mysql nas ncurses netapi network nls no-old-linux nodrm nptl nptlonly ntp ogg opengl openmedia openmp oscar osdmenu pango pcre pdf perl pm-utils png ps qt3support quicktime raptor readline redland rss rtc scanfolder scanner sdl search semantic-desktop sensord server shm silc smbclient smtp sndfile speex spell sse sse2 ssl ssse3 stats svg sysfs tcpd theora threads threadsafe tiff timidity tremor truetype unicode upnp usb userlocales v4l2 vcd vorbis webinterface xcb xinerama xml xorg xv xvid yahoo zlib zrtp" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="epson2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
I installed openoffice as opposed to openoffice-bin and suddenly I am getting the same thing, and now openoffice-bin won't work either. openoffice package starts up to the splash screen, with no errors on console. openoffice-bin package gets the error about gail, but not the other ones.
please paste the output of: emerge -pv openoffice openoffice-bin
(In reply to comment #2) > please paste the output of: > > emerge -pv openoffice openoffice-bin OK. # emerge -pv openoffice-bin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-bin-3.2.0 USE="kde -gnome -java" LINGUAS="en -ar -as -ast -bg -bn -ca -cs -da -de -dz -el -en_GB -eo -es -et -eu -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu -hi_IN -hu -id -is -it -ja -ka -km -kn -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -ml -mr -my -nb -nl -nn -oc -om -or -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -sh -si -sk -sl -sr -sv -ta -te -th -tr -ug -uk -uz -vi -zh_CN -zh_TW" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Did you try to use 3.2.1?
It started working after completely deleting (upon suggestion) the OpenOffice subdirectory in my home directory. No idea what caused it, but apparently enough other people have encountered it that this is a known workaround.
