openoffice won't launch revisited [solved]

[stealth]

openoffice.org3 starts splash screen appears disappears and nothing. There is no error message even launching from the shell. ps -e does not show any openoffice executable still running.

I reinstalled Openoffice.org with get Openoffice. deleted the .ooo3 folder still the same result.

PCLOS 2010 fully up-to-date and current repo version of ooo. Running kernel 2.6.33.4-pclos1.pae my hardware is able to run a 64bit system and I have more than 4GB of ram.

[stealth]

Does no one have any suggestions? I can't get Openoffice to open. Help!

[Tuxfriend]

Maybe a reinstall of Java does the trick?

[stealth]

Tried it no joy.

[wwwauthor]

stealth is not alone, exact same thing here.
and i used it last week so had to be within last few updates.
hmmm.

[menotu]

Have you tried running it from a Konsole?

Or you could try creating a new user account and running it from there.

[wwwauthor]

whatever it is after a reboot, it's much worse, it now affects all of KDE Desktop.

btw.  mv .kde4 .kde4_old makes zero difference.

also .. in this safemode(session)
 
$ openoffice.org3 &    #works without an issue!

[djohnston]

In a regular user session, do this from a console:

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -writer &

You should see error message(s) in console.

[stealth]

/opt/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin -writer &

[1]+  Exit 78

[djohnston]

OK. If you do openoffice.org3 & ,

Tools>Options

(left panel) OpenOffice.org>Java

Is "Use a Java runtime environment" checked?

[wwwauthor]

$cat ~/.ooo3/user/config/javasettings_Linux_x86.xml | grep enabled
<enabled xsi:nil="true"/>
$cat ~/.ooo3/user/config/javasettings_Linux_x86.xml | grep location
<location>file:///usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.19/jre</location>

Because going to "Tools>Options (left panel) OpenOffice.org>Java"
would imply the GUI opened! which it will not.

[wwwauthor]

LOL

rm -f ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4
rm -f ~/.kde4/env/gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh

openoffice now works..

and desktop looks yucky lol

[djohnston]

$cat ~/.ooo3/user/config/javasettings_Linux_x86.xml | grep enabled
<enabled xsi:nil="true"/>
$cat ~/.ooo3/user/config/javasettings_Linux_x86.xml | grep location
<location>file:///usr/lib/jvm/java-1.6.0-sun-1.6.0.19/jre</location>

Because going to "Tools>Options (left panel) OpenOffice.org>Java"
would imply the GUI opened! which it will not.

I was aiming that one at stealth, since he is able to execute it. Glad you found a fix, though.

[stealth]

OK. If you do openoffice.org3 & ,

Tools>Options

(left panel) OpenOffice.org>Java

Is "Use a Java runtime environment" checked?

That would require Openoffice to launch and for me to be able to get into it. Therein lies the problem.

I tried a temp user account and OOO launched and came up.

So what else do I need to delete from my user account besides .ooo3 ? Because that is where the problem is.

[stealth]

What happened to Texstar? Is he alright? He never replied after I answered his question.