Are you able to use StarOffice with potato ? I get a SIGSEGV, this is the last part of strace's output
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/locale.dir", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4233, ...}) = 0 mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x412110 00 read(7, "#\t$TOG: locale.dir /main/13 1998"..., 4096) = 4096 close(7) = 0 munmap(0x41211000, 4096) = 0 access("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", R_OK) = 0 open("/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/C/XLC_LOCALE", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=598, ...}) = 0 mmap(0, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x412110 00 read(7, "# $XConsortium: C /main/8 1996/"..., 4096) = 598 brk(0x809b000) = 0x809b000 read(7, "", 4096) = 0 close(7) = 0 munmap(0x41211000, 4096) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0 write(5, "\200\240\"A\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0|6 A \237\t\10\0\0\0\200\0\0"..., 148) = 14 8 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, [RT_0], 8) = 0 rt_sigsuspend([] <unfinished ...> --- SIGRT_0 (Real-time signal 0) --- <... rt_sigsuspend resumed> ) = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call) sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) gettimeofday({929887948, 896554}, NULL) = 0 kill(9077, SIGRT_0) = 0 open("/usr/local/staroffice5/lib/libsex506li.so", O_RDONLY) = 7 fstat(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=107204, ...}) = 0 read(7, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0d\211\0"..., 4096) = 409 6 brk(0x809c000) = 0x809c000 brk(0x809d000) = 0x809d000 mmap(0, 110212, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 7, 0) = 0x41d46000 mprotect(0x41d5b000, 24196, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x41d5b000, 24576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 7, 0x14000) = 0x41d5b000 close(7) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- rt_sigaction(SIGABRT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [ABRT], NULL, 8) = 0 kill(9066, SIGABRT) = 0 --- SIGABRT (Aborted) --- +++ killed by SIGABRT +++ Pf -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pierfrancesco Caci | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://gusp.infogroup.it ik5pvx | http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8999 Firenze - Italia | Office for the Complication of Otherwise Simple Affairs Linux penny 2.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 15 21:03:12 CEST 1999 i586 unknown