Bug#171623: openoffice.org: OO crashes upon startu

[Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>]

Hi Jack,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 10:32:13PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
>    I haven't seen any of these relocation error crashes on my
> debian ppc sid box using 1.0.1-6 of openoffice.org. 

This bugreport of -6 seems to be very rare - almost everyone has no problems
with the current -6.  The problems are with new builds - we are getting
crashes all the time.  If you have access to an i386 sid machine, you can
try reproducing it from the tarball I uploaded here:

http://people.debian.org/~halls/openoffice/643/openoffice643C.tar.bz2

Running './install --single' is enough to set up a local directory to test
from - you don't need to do a network install.

> The only
> issues I have seen are occasional quits on startup in openoffice
> from the absence of __libc_waitpic in glibc 2.3.1 or glibc cvs.
> My workaround on that was to delete the .openoffice directory
> in my account, move /usr/lib/j2se aside under a bogus name and
> rerun openoffice. This seems to cause openoffice not to find 
> the jdk support and disable it for that account. I can move 
> /usr/lib/j2se back and openoffice no longer randomly quits on
> startup (which is what Kevin expects from this bug).

Yes, I've seen reports about this one too.  I guess that is a glibc problem?

Chris