OOffice segfault

tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104

I've been using ooffice 1.1.4 for few months and there were no problems. But, suddenly, two days ago it started with segfaults.
When I try to start it I just get:

Hayl · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:32 pm Post subject:

same problem here.

there's a bug for it on bugs.gentoo.org
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lhach · Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2005 5:55 pm Post subject:

Has your emul-linux-x86-glibc been upgraded to 2.3.4-ish recently?
There are quite a few threads with segfault issues probably due to the new emul glibc.

Try roling back to emul-linux-x86-glibc-1.1 and post your results!

G'luck

tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104

I've rolled back and now it works as it should!

Thank you, man!

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Ijo · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2003 Posts: 68

Same problem here.

I've been several days looking around desperate with these problems:
- Ooffice segfault
- Cxoffice (WINE) segfault.
- Eclipse 3.0 w/ sun-jdk-1.5.0.02 failing, not launching, errors...

All solved going to previous emul glibc:

- emerge -v =emul-linux-x86-glibc-1.1

Thanks a lot for this thread !!!

tnt · Veteran Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 1104

Maybe this thread should be made sticky for a while... Just while there are those bugs in new emul-linux-x86-glibc...
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jknacnud · n00b Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Utah, USA

I noticed that some of my other libs had higher installed version than available. Probably because I installed something from the unstable branch.
emul-linux-x86-baselibs
emul-linux-x86-xlibs
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs

I took my xlibs and baselibs back to the stable release but that did not help my ooffice segfault problem. I was going to do the same with

app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-glibc 2.3.4.20041102

Except the installed and available versions were the same. Is there some way to specify to emerge that I want an older version, or will I need to go find one on the web and download it?

Thanks,
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jknacnud · n00b Joined: 13 May 2005 Posts: 31 Location: Utah, USA

Nevermind, I rtfm and figured out that the file was already on my system and I figured out how emerge it. OH, and now my OpenOffice works!! And Wine builds!! Woohoo!! Thank you ever so much for the tip!
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esoteriskdk · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:44 pm Post subject:

I just reinstalled my AMD64 box, to take advantage of a new filesystem etc. but suddenly I find that Open Office segfaults like so:

esoteriskdk · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:29 am Post subject:

Okay, I've reached the following results.

The 32-bit libs in glibc, now comes with the normal glibc, thats why they are masked by the devs and wont install.

I tried to downgrade the glibc by commenting it out in /etc/make.profile/packages, but it didn't make any difference, it still segfaults with the same error.

But at all times, it works perfectly if run as root ARGH!

So right now I'm pretty stumped, I use Linux to do all my work in and I can't really live without an office package, which is why I'm posting this from a XP machine :cry:

esoteriskdk · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 8:57 am Post subject:

Once again I'm replying to my own post

Turned out that it was infact a authentication problem, all that messing with glibc for no reason. I'm running a network where all clients authtenticate via LDAP, which means that the users doesn't exist on the local /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group etc. For some arcane reason this prevents Open Office from running setup, of course it worked with root, because thats the only user that exists locally on the client machine.

The hack was to remove "ldap" from /etc/nsswitch.conf, do a normal useradd (don't forget to change password), then log out and in again. Then go into your windowmanager (Fluxbox here) and run ooffice, it then runs the setup perfectly. Close it down, exit your windowmanager and log out, do a userdel and turn on ldap in the /etc/nsswitch.conf again. Now ooffice runs perfectly. Jeeez what a workaround.

Thinking about posting this as a bug, but it really sounds like something upstream (ie. a problem with Open Office itself).