Thanks; good suggestion. There's a segfault in there... working on it now. Looks like it might be choking on a font metrics file.
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:03:25 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Please try to wrap your lines at 72-80 characters. ] > > On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:47:40 -0400, AJ Milne wrote: > > ... no errors in the console if I run it from there instead. > > > > Particulars: I'm running lenny, x86_64 binaries, the 2.6.24 kernel, > > and KDE. I tried installing the KDE integration package, uninstalling > > the whole thing, reinstalling (twice), got the same symptoms. Running > > from the KDE launcher or the console, I get the same thing. Running > > calc or writer, same thing. Splash screen appears, progress bar zips > > to full, then nothing. Tried removing the user settings after > > reinstall (~/.openoffice.org2), same thing. > > > > Apologies if this has been covered somewhere; I searched, didn't see it. > > > > Helpful information even if you *haven't* seen this: does OpenOffice > > log its errors somewhere? I haven't been able to find them. The only > > logging in /var/log/* appears to be from > > installs/uninstalls/reinstalls. > > You can have a look at ~/.xsession-errors, but I am not too optimistic > about this since you do not even get any error message when you start > the program directly from the command line. > > It may help to use strace on the program like this: > > strace -f -o oo-strace.txt ooffice > > This will log all system calls in the file oo-strace.txt. The strace > file will be too long to be posted here, but maybe you can upload it > somewhere so that we can have a look. If that is not possible then you > can post the just end of the file, the last 50 lines or something like > that. (run "tail -n50 oo-strace.txt") > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- AJ Milne http://accidentalweblog.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

