OpenOffice doesnt start after upgrading from RedHat 7.2 to 8

chak · Newbie Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 1

Hiho,
my Installation of OO 1.01 was quite stable, but since I upgraded from RedHat 7.3 to 8.0
it won't start anymore. I un/reinstalled it, but it always exits with the message
"An unrecoverable error has occurred. All modified files have been saved and can probably be
recovered at program restart."
After running the setup again in repair mode, the setup.log contains the line
"error: RegistryItemAction::Execute() called"
six times. I tried to install and run as user as well as as root.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?

dill · General User Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 49

Did you re-install the OOo from Redhat or your own?

Bowties · Guest

That doesn't surprise me. There are a lot of changes between Redhat 7.3 and 8.0, including bluecurve (the new 8.0 UI), gnome 2, newer X libraries, etc. Any of these can be the cause of your problems.

Redhat 8.0 has an installation option for Openoffice. Did you try using the binaries that come with 8.0? If not, you should try those. Otherwise, you should consider a clean install of 8.0. Other apps will thank you for it as well.

aciani1@uic.edu · Guest

I installed 1.0.1 on two Redhat machines, one 7.2 (works) and the other 8.0 (same error). I used the exact same version of the Java JRE on both machines, so that can bee ruled out. The error message in the setup.log that you refer to occurs in both machines, so that can't be the cause of the problem.

The only library differences (that OO uses) between the machines are the gnu libraries and pthread.

libc 2.2.2 -> 2.2.93
libm 2.2.2 -> 2.2.93
ld-linux 2.2.2 -> 2.2.93
libdl 2.2.2 -> 2.2.93

libpthread 0.9 -> 0.10

I can't see any great differences between the sub versions of the gnu libs, the X11 libraries are all the same versions, so my guess would be that libpthread is suspect.

miker · Newbie Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 2

I'm having exactly the same problem with a RedHat 7.3 system. Everything in the setup.log file says OK, except for six errors in a row. All six say: "error: RegistryItemAction::Execute() called"

draude · Posted: Sun Jan 05, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject:

The Red Hat 8.0 cds include OpenOffice.org 1.0.1. Have you tried installing those rpms?

miker · Newbie Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 2

Bowties · Guest

If you haven't tried it already, you could download the source code for OOo 1.0.1 and compile it yourself. There's also the developer release (642?) which may work better for you.

dill · General User Joined: 18 Dec 2002 Posts: 49

For compiling check out:
http://ooo.ximian.com/hackers-guide.html

Guest · Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2003 11:43 pm Post subject:

DannyB · Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:08 am Post subject:

Just skimming this thread, there is one thing that it seems to me that has not been tried.

Download the OOo 1.1.0 installer. Run the "install" script. (Do NOT run "setup", but run "install".)

xhost +localhost
su root
install --prefix=/opt --interactive

This is approximately how I install OOo versions on my SuSE 8.1. The interactive installer pops up, you get to configure the installation, click Next, Next, Next, etc., and then Finish.

Then when each user runs OOo, they will get the brief end-user setup process once only.

If you don't want this for every user account, then do the end user install process once. They copy the OpenOffice.org1.1.0 folder from your home directory to every other user's home directory. (Set ownership.) On SuSE Linux, you can also put this into the directory /etc/skel, which is the skeleton home directory template that is used to create the home directory of any newly added user accounts. I do now know if Red Hat has this /etc/skel feature.
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