OpenOffice.org is all BEEPed up.

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

After hours of compiling I was happy to have OpenOffice.org installed... Unfortunately, things are pretty messed up: MSWord documents won't be opened, for one thing. I get an error dialog saying:

An unrecoverable error has occured.

All modified files have been saved and can
probably be recovered at program restart.

I then click the OK button and the app closes.

Right, I'll open an existing OOoWriter document. YAY! That worked... So, I try saving it:

An unrecoverable error has occured.

All modified files have been saved and can
probably be recovered at program restart.

I then click the OK button and the app closes.

Okay, I'll try making a new document and save it. That can't give me much problems, can it? Click Save, go to /home/parena and I give a name -> Save

Error saving the document Untitled1:
Wrong parameter.
The operation was started under an invalid parameter.

I then click the OK button and the app closes.

OOoCalc: same problems, can't save shit... What's going on??? HELP!

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OpelBlitz · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 6:27 am Post subject:

You sure you didn't install Openoffice in Windows

Just kidding.

Perhaps it didn't compile correctly. I know I've had issues compiling it because it complains about a g++ directory or something. Oh well...

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

Maybe... However, I get the same problems with the bin install...

If I don't get it working, I might have to revert to Mandrake again. At least to use OpenOffice.org. I have plenty of OO.org docs which I want to use and I want to keep using OO.org as my office suite. :/

OpelBlitz · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 10:35 am Post subject:

I'd love to use OO.org again. I used it in Windows and it was great. But it just plain doesn't work in Linux for me; I did the bin install and it's like it doesn't ecven exist. I did the compile and I got slews of errors. Oh well... Maybe I can try the .bin install again.

nE0 · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 2:54 pm Post subject:

OpelBlitz · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2003 9:17 pm Post subject:

That's the one -- include directory.

PARENA · Guru Joined: 06 Jan 2003 Posts: 349

So, I got rid of anything OpenOffice.org related and recompiled. I ran oowriter under root and it worked.

*astonished public*

Yes, it worked. So, I started it under my own account. Same errors... Sad as I was, I deleted ~/.openoffice for some reason and started oowriter again, just out of frustration...

BEHOLD! IT WORKED!

As far as I can tell, the GRP OO bin package gave me corrupted ~/.openoffice files or something, so after unmerging that and emerging regular openoffice, it still went all wrong. Now all's well and I'm very happy.

*crowd cheers*

So, in short, if you encounter the same problem I had:

- Get rid of your ~/.openoffice dir
- Try it out
- Doesn't work? Get rid of your GRP (or newer(?) bin install of OO)
- emerge openoffice
- Get rid of your old ~/.openoffice dir again
- Start your apps! HURRAH!

OpelBlitz · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2003 3:01 am Post subject:

I'll give that a try in a second.

japanick · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 5:04 am Post subject: No ~/.openoffice directory

I am having the same exact problem as PARENA, getting the same error messages, and yet it works fine in root. However, I do not have a .openoffice directory anywhere, and so I do not know what to do to fix this weird problem.

if anyone has suggestions that would be great. I really don't want to have to do an emerge openoffice on this not-so-fast machine, and it works perfectly in root.
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Matje · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:31 am Post subject: Re: No ~/.openoffice directory

japanick · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 8:02 am Post subject: sucess

I never did find the .openoffice directory, however i ran the ./setup program in OO's directory, uninstalled OO, then reinstalled it using the "network installation" and it works great now! no problems.
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