Bug 54212 – Ximian OpenOffice 1.1.59 crashes at startup

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Gustavo Michels 2004-06-17 09:07:51 UTC]

I was using openoffice-kde-bin from a user supplied ebuild which was working fine, integrated widgets as I always wanted. However, startup times was slow and usage was very choppy.

So I heard about the ooo-kde flag for ximian openoffice and decided to give it a shot, as it looked exactly what I wanted. I unmerged my previous openoffice-kde-bin and emerged openoffice-ximian-1.1.59.

Compiling went fine (took 10 hours) but whenever I try to start up any ooffice application, it crashes with the following message:

$ xooffice
sh: line 1: crash_report: command not found
KCrash: Application 'soffice.bin' crashing...

And I receive a kde popup message saying the application received signal 6 (SIGABRT). This happens every time. Tried with root and also a just created user to check if the problem was my profile, they all had the same results, apart from the setup part finishing succesfully.

I tried stracing the application, but it generates a lot of information and I don't have much knowledge in this to find the problem, so I am attaching the strace.

I haven't tried with previous versions of ximian-ooo since it takes way too long to compile, but if needed, I can also do that.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge app-office/openoffice-ximian-1.1.59
2.run /usr/bin/xooffice
3.

Actual Results:  
Application crashed 

Expected Results:  
Should have started :) 

# emerge info 
Portage 2.0.50-r8 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 
2.6.6-love4) 
================================================================= 
System uname: 2.6.6-love4 i686 mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP2400+ 
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 
distcc 2.13 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) 
[disabled] 
ccache version 2.3 [enabled] 
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" 
AUTOCLEAN="yes" 
CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 
-maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math" 
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" 
COMPILER="gcc3" 
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" 
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" 
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -funroll-loops -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer 
-maccumulate-outgoing-args -ffast-math" 
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" 
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" 
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo 
http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com" 
MAKEOPTS="-j2" 
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" 
PORTDIR="/usr/portage" 
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/bmg-main" 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 
USE="3dnow X aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups directfb dvd 
encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gphoto2 gpm imlib java jpeg kde kerberos ldap 
libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis ooo-kde 
opengl oss pam pdflib perl png ppds python qt quicktime readline samba sdl 
slang spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype usb wifi x86 
xinerama xml2 xv zlib"

[Comment 1 Gustavo Michels 2004-06-17 09:11:42 UTC]

Created attachment 33429 [details]
result of strace xooffice

I forgot to add in the previous comment that I am using reiser4 on all my of my
partitions (except /boot, of course)

[Comment 2 Gustavo Michels 2004-06-21 15:21:49 UTC]

As I suspected, the problem seemed to be something related to my reiser4 filesystem. I tried compiling the package on another box which has reiserfs partitions, generated a tbz2 and installed it to my system. Now OOo is working perfectly (and faster, as I wanted).

So I guess you can mark this as invalid.

[Comment 3 Andreas Proschofsky (RETIRED) 2004-06-21 15:28:18 UTC]

thanks for reporting back