OpenOffice 3 hangs opening native files under Linux

Ryan-sd63 · General User Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

I'm attempting to install OpenOffice 3 running under Ubuntu 3.04 for use in a school environment. Everything works fine, except opening OpenOffice native format files (odt, odp etc) from a file manager. The OpenOffice splash screen appears, goes away and then an empty frame appears and never fills in.

Starting OpenOffice, then loading the file works fine. Oddly enough, opening Microsoft Office formatted documents from the file manager also works fine.

What can I do to resolve this?
Thank you.

Robert Tucker · Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 11:28 pm Post subject:

What output do you get if you start from the command line:

$ <path to openoffice>/openoffice.org3/program/swriter <path to file>/filename.odt
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AndrewZ · Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 10:07 am Post subject:

Try this: switch from the OpenOffice.org Ubuntu edition to the vanilla edition from http://www.openoffice.org because many people experience bugs from Ubuntu's changes
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Ryan-sd63 · General User Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

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AndrewZ · Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:41 pm Post subject:

See Troubleshooting: OpenOffice.org won't start
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Ryan-sd63 · General User Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

AndrewZ · Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject:

last mention to reading your odt file is line 15733
first mention of crash on line 63263

Hmm. Try this

0. Try it again in Gnome

If that fails,
1. Close OpenOffice.org and all other applications
2. Run "mv ~/.openoffice ~/.openoffice.bak" (or delete, if you prefer)
3. Delete all your files in /tmp/ directory. I saw OOo accessing many including
/tmp/crxmlGT6YEi
/tmp/svf2g.tmp
/tmp/crstkpbbEpT
4. Open OpenOffice.org from the start menu
5. Open the document from the OOo file menu

If that fails
6. Remove OOo
7. delete the same files as above in #2 and #3
8. Reinstall
9. #4 and #5.

Tell me if that helps, please.
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Ryan-sd63 · General User Joined: 05 Dec 2008 Posts: 5

AndrewZ · Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2008 11:46 am Post subject:

Do other Java applications run?

Can you upgrade Java? (Your Java is a little out of date.) If you haven't, uninstall Java and OOo, and reinstall them.

There is a file called javaldx (or something like that). What if you rename it temporarily? Or replace it with a blank bash script (should be permissions 0700 with the header "#!/bin/sh").
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casanogab · Newbie Joined: 04 Feb 2009 Posts: 1

I have the same problem

under ldap authentication. Ubuntu 8.04...

I have try

remove ooo3
reinstall ooo3
remove sun java from the add/remove program
reinstall remove sun java from the add/remove program
delete the .openoffice ( hide folder)
try to install java from java website...
modify my /etc/group and add group, user of my user test ldap

this is the error i get from my terminal

# An unexpected error has been detected by Java Runtime Environment:
#
# SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0xb02286a6, pid=6849, tid=2913442704
#
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (10.0-b23 mixed mode, sharing linux-x86)
# Problematic frame:
# C [libldap50.so+0x226a6] ldap_ld_free+0xd6
#
# An error report file with more information is saved as:

thx