After a system update on 2010-07-16 (emerge --newuse --deep --update world), in which 114 ebuilds have been processed (among which the upgrade to KDE 4.4.4) the complete OpenOffice suite stopped working. Starting OpenOffice from the commandline yields the following warning: ** (soffice:633): WARNING **: unable to get gail version number which however is not obvious related to the problem. The problem has been described very accurately in the first posting of the following Ubuntu bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/365763 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start ooffice -calc (or any other subapplication) 2. 3. Actual Results: OpenOffice does not start Expected Results: OpenOffice shows the splash screen, and the subapplication opens its main window I'm on the road in North America. I can only see messages and reply to them when I have WiFi access, which can be sometimes several days in between.
Please post your `emerge --info app-office/openoffice', fill in the missing version in the Summary, and reopen this bug report.
# emerge --info app-office/openoffice Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.31-gentoo-r10-04 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r10-04-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9300_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 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: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4, 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="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 accessibility acl additions alsa amd64 amr apache2 authdaemond authfile ban bash-completion branding bzip2 cairo calendar cdb cdr cgi cjk cli consolekit context cracklib crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers cxx dbus deflate dga directfb discard-path diskio dmx doc dri dvd dvdnav dvdr dvipdfm ebook elf emacs encode exif extra extras fam fbcon filter firefox fontconfig fontforge foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp fts3 fuse gadu gcj gd gdbm gif gimp gpg gphoto2 gpm graphics groupwise gstreamer hal hardened hash hfs history hpn iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib inifile ipv6 irc jadetex java java6 jce jms jmx jpeg kde kde4 kdm kerberos konqueror kontact kpathsea lame laptop latex latex3 lcms ldap ldap-sasl lm_sensors logrotate loop-aes mad mmap mmx mng modules mp2 mp3 mp3tunes mpeg mpeg2 mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg omega openexr opengl openmp openntpd openssl opensslcrypt oss pam parse-clocks pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd pstricks publishers pulseaudio python qmail qt-static qt3support qt4 quicktime radius raw readline reflection reiserfs rpm rrdcgi rrdtool samba sametime sasl science sdk sdl semantic-desktop sensord session slp smp sms snmp soap sockets softquota spf spl sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 stats svg svgz swat symlink sysfs sysvipc tcl tcpd texteffect theora tiff tk truetype unicode usb utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vorbis wavpack webkit wma wmf wmp xcomposite xetex xhtml xindy xine xinerama xml xmldoclet xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xmp xorg xpm xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 cgi cgid 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="brother2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel fbdev" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
(In reply to comment #1) > Please post your `emerge --info app-office/openoffice', fill in the missing > version in the Summary, and reopen this bug report. You still missed some information. There's a section like this ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= [...] missing in the output. And the Summary doesn't yet have a version added.
# emerge --info app-office/openoffice-bin Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.34-gentoo-r1-01 x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.34-gentoo-r1-01-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P9300_@_2.26GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 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: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.3.4, 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="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/lib64/fax /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/spool/fax/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=core2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/ ftp://mirrors.tera-byte.com/pub/gentoo ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ http://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/ " LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" MAKEOPTS="-j3" 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" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X X509 accessibility acl additions alsa amd64 amr apache2 authdaemond authfile ban bash-completion branding bzip2 cairo calendar cdb cdr cgi cjk cli consolekit context cracklib crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers cxx dbus deflate dga directfb discard-path diskio dmx doc dri dvd dvdnav dvdr dvipdfm ebook elf emacs encode exif extra extras fam fbcon filter firefox fontconfig fontforge foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp fts3 fuse gadu gcj gd gdbm gif gimp gpg gphoto2 gpm graphics groupwise gstreamer hal hardened hash hfs history hpn iconv idn imagemagick imap imlib inifile ipv6 irc jadetex java java6 jce jms jmx jpeg kde kde4 kdm kerberos konqueror kontact kpathsea lame laptop latex latex3 lcms ldap ldap-sasl lm_sensors logrotate loop-aes mad mmap mmx mng modules mp2 mp3 mp3tunes mpeg mpeg2 mudflap multilib mysql mysqli ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ogg omega openexr opengl openmp openntpd openssl opensslcrypt oss pam parse-clocks pcre pdf perl png posix ppds pppd pstricks publishers pulseaudio python qmail qt-static qt3support qt4 quicktime radius raw readline reflection reiserfs rpm rrdcgi rrdtool samba sametime sasl science sdk sdl semantic-desktop sensord session slp smp sms snmp soap sockets softquota spf spl sql sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 stats svg svgz swat symlink sysfs sysvipc tcl tcpd texteffect theora tiff tk truetype unicode usb utempter v4l v4l2 vcd vhosts vorbis wavpack webkit wma wmf wmp xcomposite xetex xhtml xindy xine xinerama xml xmldoclet xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xmp xorg xpm xscreensaver xsl xulrunner xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" 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 cgi cgid 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" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="brother2" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel fbdev" 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, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= app-office/openoffice-bin-3.2.0 was built with the following: USE="java kde (multilib) -gnome" LINGUAS="de en fr -ar -as -ast -bg -bn -ca -cs -da -dz -el -en_GB -eo -es -et -eu -fi -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"
For the record: In the meantime, I have re-installed the machine, switching from amd64 to x86; I will stick with 32bits from now on for several reasons. After I restored my home directory from the backup, the problem of being unable to start ooo however persisted, which made me think that my profile rather than with ooo as such is at fault. After having installed another user on the same box, without any ooo troubles, I simply rm -rf /home/xxxx/.ooo3, and here we go: ooo works again. The question is: what caused the profile to go corrupted? Since I can't tell and don't have the time to reiterate the whole process, I will switch this bug to "Resolved, WONTFIX". If any specialist in this matter is seriously interested in resolving the problem, please contact me: I will keep the corrupted profile for some time to go.
