Problem with Debian Testing

["Steve C. Thompson" <sct@ucsd.edu>]

Hello Group,

I'm sure this problem has been solved...

I'm running Debian testing (sarge).  OOo has worked fine in the past.
Recently when trying to start OOo I get something like ``OpenOffice.org
lockfile found'' and the program won't start.  I remove ~/.sversionrc
and ~/.openoffice, run again, it stalls.  I ``apt-get remove
openoffice.org; apt-get clean; apt-get update; apt-get install
openoffice.org''.  I now have a fresh OOo install.  Try to run it, the
terminal says something about ``setting up OOo, starting OOo'' but it
hangs.  Try to run oowriter, oocalc, etc., all hang.  I run the setup
program in ~/.openoffice (./setup), takes me to a fancy repair/remove
OOo screen, I ask to repair, hangs.

I remember something like this happening to me in the past, maybe 1 year
ago.  I didn't worry too much about it.  Then, one day, magically, I run
OOo and it starts.  I'm not having such luck this time around.

Like I said, I use Debian testing, have been for years, and run apt-get
update; apt-get upgrade each day.

One final note.  I used an obscure OOo-only mirror in the past since
Debian didn't have OOo in its repository.  Since OOo is now in testing,
I've removed the old mirror from my sources.list; I only have:

  deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
  deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main
  deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main
  deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main
  deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main

Please advise!

Thanks,
Steve