When using a 2.6.5 kernel patched for Reiser 4 on LVM: After successful emerge of either openoffice or openoffice-bin, open office apps fail to start. The openoffice setup program is called to configure ~/.openoffice settings. The setup program loads the splash screen and part of the first dialogue box and then freezes. Converting filesystems from Reiser4 to XFS allows the setup program to complete. /opt - Reiser4 (now XFS) /home - Reiser4 (now XFS) / - Reiser4 (now XFS) I am unsure if this is an issue with Reiser4 or Openoffice. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Whilst using Reiser4 filesystems: 1. emerge openoffice or openoffice-bin 2. /opt/OpenOffice.org/setup Actual Results: Setup program displays partial splash screen, initial components of dialogue box, then freezes Expected Results: Setup program to complete.
What happens if you just run ooffice without explicitly running the setup program? And does your openGL work correctly (try running glxgears)?
Attempting to run any of the programs fails in the same manner. I believe the individual apps test for .openoffice/<stuff> and if they fail to find them, launch /opt/OpenOffice.org/setup.
Here's a spanner : I'm seeing exactly the same problem, except I'm using plain vanilla Reiser3 as provided in the gentoo-dev 2.6.5 kernel. I haven't tried changing my underlying filesystem as yet. Perhaps of note is that I have /opt symlinked to usr/opt as I'd partitioned my root too small to cope with large binary installations like this.
Further notes : I use the fluxbox wm. I see the same problem using the openoffice-bin package and having a freshly compiled openoffice (using sun's jdk). I use ~x86, using an Athlon-XP 1700+, although most things have been compiled with the plain 'athlon' flag. I plan to rebuild world with 'athlon-xp' overnight. Let me know if you need any more info.
Ok, it appears that my particular problem is actually this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34744 Turning off XFS seems to have fixed the problem, although not in the most desirable method.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 34744 ***
