[gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root

[Grant Edwards]

After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working
for non-root users.  When I run 

  strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer

I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a
child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin,
and oosplash.bin is hung waiting on this call:

  connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"}, 110

If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing
happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket.

I've checked, and the socket does exist:

$ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL'
srwx------ 1 grante grante      0 Sep  3 23:03 OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52

Any ideas on what to do next?
  
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