Fwd: i386 testing: java not recognizing its libraries and libreoffice and okular not launching

[Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>]

In addition, I have now noticed that even okular does not start
anymore after that infamous apt-get update/upgrade with i386 testing:

francesco@deb32:~$ okular
okular(3765): you need to call Settings::instance before using
KCrash: Application 'okular' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/francesco/.kde/socket-deb32/kdeinit4__0
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly
drkonqi(3766): Unable to find an internal debugger that can work with
the KCrash backend

[1]+  Stopped                 okular
francesco@deb32:~$



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:52 PM
Subject: i386 testing: java not recognizing its libraries and
libreoffice not launching
To: debian-users <debian-user@lists.debian.org>


Following update/upgrade, java does not recognize libjli.so any more.
I had to set LD_LIBRARY... to remedy.

Nonetheless, libreoffice  does not start any more:

francesco@deb32:~$ libreoffice
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
francesco@deb32:~$


I thought it is a java problem. What else?

Incidentally, I turned to AbiWORD for my .dot table. Unless my i386
testing has major problems, that text editor is simply unusable for
complex tables. In general, while at the linux prompt Debian works
well (in particular amd64 testing, here in use for a  GPU-CPU
cluster), once gnome is launched installed, problems arise. Too many
things that in science are not used, too much done automatically, and
often erroneously. I am at gnome simply for "gchempaint", other wise
there is no decent pdf reader not CD burner, which are useful to any
purpose. I had to install okular and k3b, making the complex even more
complex. With such stuff as gnome, which even pretends to take care of
upgrading, newcomers will not even learn how to mount a device.

Thanks for advice about libreoffice

francesco pietra

PS: I am not at the stable i386 version simply to have a
correspondence with testing amd64 which we have to use for recent
nvidia  drivers for GPU-CPU clusters.