I had to downgrade my db installation from 4.x to 3.2.9 to get OO to compile. Now it's compiled, but I can't save any files. When I select 'save', (this has been tested with the spreadsheet and the word processor), an error box comes up saying: /opt/OpenOffice/1.0.0/work does not exist Why is it trying to save to /opt instead of my home directory? Then when I navigate the file dialog to my home directory, it immediately fails writing with another error dialog: Error saving the document Untiled1: Wrong parameter. The operation was started under an invalid parameter. And then the whole program exits, printing "Aborted" on the command line. Also, it creates a bunch of 0 byte files: cfox@paco cfox $ find . -name "*.tmp" ./svebp.tmp ./svec0.tmp ./svec1.tmp cfox@paco cfox $ find . -name "*.sav" ./exc0.sav
I also have had this bug with both openoffice and openoffice-bin, but cannot reproduce everytime. perhaps this is a openoffice bug and not a ebuild bug?
The solution to all my problems and to yours as well most likely is not a bug, its a problem of having a old OO config file around which is screwing things up. Try: deleting all OpenOffice and .OpenOffice files from your user directory, then also remove a file called .sversionrc. re-run /opt/OpenOffice/setup and when prompted do the "workstation" install... and all your problems will magically disappear. this problem is caused by older versions of OO (pre1.0 in my case) having been installed before using the ebuilds to install. let me know if this works, i'm very confident it will. the db compile problem i'm not sure about... dave
Ditto for me. I'm using OpenOffice-bin (the source wouldn't emerge on my box). On trying to save any doc, I get a message box saying "An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files have been saved and can probably be recovered at program restart."
Please disregard my previous comment. I followed the directions in Comment #2 by Dave Nellans - now OO works fine :)
