Uninstalled (apt-get purge) all JREs and open-office.org* on the PC and then reinstalled openoffice.org and sun-java6-jre. OpenOffice lists the JRE in the Tools-Options dialogue but still does show the "JRE defect..." error.
Then I tried to find the XML file where openoffice stores its config data. I found /usr/lib/openoffice/share/config/javasettingsunopkginstall.xml which shows <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--This is a generated file. Do not alter this file!--> <java xmlns="http://openoffice.org/2004/java/framework/1.0"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";> <enabled xsi:nil="true"/> <userClassPath xsi:nil="true"/> <vmParameters xsi:nil="true"/> <jreLocations xsi:nil="true"/> <javaInfo xsi:nil="false" vendorUpdate="2004-01-30" autoSelect="true"> <vendor>Sun Microsystems Inc.</vendor> <location>file:///usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06/jre</location> <version>1.6.0_06</version> <features>0</features> <requirements>1</requirements> <vendorData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vendorData> </javaInfo> </java> Somewhere on the Openoffice Wiki-pages it said that deleting the file would reset the java settings. But after deleting it, going through the Tools-Options dialogue did not create a new file instead. I stopped searching at this point as I do not have enough knowledge about OOo and its architecture. Meanwhile I installed 8.04 on a laptop from scratch. OO base works fine and has no problems with the JRE there. If somebody could list the possible configuration locations for OOo and JRE I could compare the working and non-working installations. -- [hardy] OOo Base will not connect to MySQL using JDBC https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220722 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
