Hi Chris I tried removing that "openoffice.org-gcj" package as you suggested. I still get the same crash, but I got the following output, a bit different:
(soffice:25687): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with non-zero page size is deprecated pythonloader.Loader ctor pythonloader.Loader.activate pythonloader: interpreting url vnd.openoffice.pymodule:pythonscript pythonloader: after expansion vnd.openoffice.pymodule:pythonscript libgcj failure: gcj linkage error. Incorrect library ABI version detected. Aborting. Next I tracked down ALL "gcj" related pacakges, including several old residual config packages including libgcj7.0, 7.1 and 8.something. I also remove openoffice.org-java-common. After this, I got the "JRE REQUIRED" warning (many times, a dialog box each time) from the Macro tab of the Picture dialog. After that, I was able to reinstall sun-java6-jre and run OpenOffice set the JRE using the Tools-->Options-->Java dialog. I think that a key observation here is that OpenOffice should have a default way of turning off the selected JRE the first time it is seen to have a problem. Rather than continuing to cause a crash, this would allow it to subsequently present a dialog saying the the JRE is broken and must be reconfigured. It would also be sensible to have a simple algorithm to choose the best available JRE in the case where a number of known-good options exist on the system, rather than relying on the user to manually specify the one they want. I think that requiring the user to manually choose a JRE is a strangely low-level thing to expect the typical user to have to do. Synaptic should be able to deal with that stuff. For me the problem is solved now, but I think that there are some improvements that could be made here, definitely. -- OpenOffice writer crashes with picture properties Macro https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292199 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
