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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs.ext@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:34:14
Message-Id: 200809240933.53338.dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Openoffice dies on startup by Kevin O'Gorman
1 Am Mittwoch 24 September 2008 07:28:42 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman:
2 > I hadn't used it for a month or so. Perhaps it got resentful.
3 > Anyway, recent attempts to start any flavor of OpenOffice have failed
4 > early.
5 >
6 > It does ask about plugins, and whether it shour restore my session,
7 > but shortly after that it simply dies. There's no dialog box,
8 > and nothing obvious in the log files.
9
10 First thing I do in such cases is to start the thing from a shell, to see
11 what's printed on stderr/stdout. Most of the times this gives valuable hints.
12
13 > I've done revdep-rebuild, and its clean. Then I re-emerged
14 > openoffice-bin (which is what I use). To no avail.
15 >
16 > Any ideas?
17
18 emerge -C openoffice-bin && emerge openoffice
19
20 openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags and on a
21 machine that may or may not match what you have. Compiling it yourself is
22 always the better idea.
23
24 Bye...
25
26 Dirk
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