Bug 135634 – openoffice-bin 2.0.2 goes crazy on startup

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Jan Sembera 2006-06-05 07:48:44 UTC]

When I execute OpenOffice, no matter which application and no matter whether I specify file on the command line or I don't, during the process of starting (progress indicator in approximately half), OpenOffice displays 'OpenOffice document recovery', but either in some strange language or it's just gibberish, and when I click the only button on screen, it probably crashes, automagically resumes starting and return into this 'Document recovery' screen again. Screenshot will be attached to this bug. This problem occured some time ago with openoffice 2.0.0, and I believe it was when I set the LINGUAS variable to czech language, but I was unable to undo this ever since. I was trying to remove .ooo-2.0 directory, I even created another user account and tried to execute OOo there, but with same result. 

I use binary build, I don't have enough disk space for successful compilation of OpenOffice. Openoffice was merged as follows. 

[ebuild   R   ] app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.2  -gnome +java 119,617 kB 

Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-ck10 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.16-ck10 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1800+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.2.3-r5, 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     [Not Present]
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
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-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -ftracer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig digest distlocks sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://mirror.icis.pcz.pl/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.gentoo.mesh-solutions.com/gentoo/ http://gentoo.st.uz/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/"
LANG="C"
MAKEOPTS=""
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac aalib acl acpi adns aim alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bash-completion bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bonobo bzip2 caps cdparanoia cdr cli crypt cscope ctype cups curl dbus dga dio divx4linux dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb freetype ftp gd gdbm geoip ggi gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal iconv icq idn imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jabber java javascript jikes jpeg junit kdeenablefinal lcms ldap libcaca libg++ libwww lua mad matroska mbox memlimit mhash mikmod mime mmap mmx mng mozilla mp3 mpeg msn ncurses nls nptl ogg openal opengl oscar pam pcntl pcre pdflib perl pic pie png pnp posix postgres pppd python qt quicktime readline recode reflection ruby samba sasl scanner sdl session skey slang sndfile sockets sox speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl svg sysfs sysvipc tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xorg xosd xpm xprint xsl xv xvid yahoo zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jan Sembera 2006-06-05 07:50:37 UTC]

Created attachment 88439 [details]
Screenshot of document recovery screen that appears

[Comment 2 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-06-05 22:47:50 UTC]

Try to use another font for your user interface, this might help with the "not-readable"-problem

[Comment 3 Jan Sembera 2006-06-06 03:43:11 UTC]

http://fis.bofh.cz/links/strace_oo.txt

This is where I put strace of my attempt to run openoffice. It doesn't tell me anything, but you could have better luck with it. What I noticed about it is that SIGSEGV. I also noticed that when I attempt to run oopadmin2, it also segfaults. 

Another font in my interface... I can't start oopadmin2 or any other part of OOo, therefore I can't switch fonts in it. Or does OOo read fonts from GTK or Qt configuration? 

[Comment 4 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-06-06 04:52:52 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> Or does OOo read fonts from GTK or
> Qt configuration? 
> 

Yes it does

[Comment 5 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-06-09 03:04:02 UTC]

So did you try to change the font?

[Comment 6 Jan Sembera 2006-06-13 18:01:04 UTC]

Unfortunately, it didn't. No matter what font I choose in both Qt and GTK, ooffice still keeps crashing and showing nonsense (I used qtconfig and switch2 for this). 

[Comment 7 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-07-11 04:50:42 UTC]

Do you also get this with 2.0.3?

[Comment 8 Jan Sembera 2006-07-12 07:56:35 UTC]

When I upgraded X.org to modular version 7.0 (still on OOo 2.0.2), the message fixed itself (probably some font issue) and it was written correctly. It was not Document recovery as I first believed, but information about crash with checkbox whether OOo should be restarted or not. If I restarted it, it crashed again. 

After upgrading to 2.0.3, OOo just ends during startup without any error screen and without any message on terminal. 

[Comment 9 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2006-10-13 15:44:27 UTC]

Anything new here?

[Comment 10 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2007-01-09 21:26:53 UTC]

No reply here, need info, closing until then