Bug#308600: openoffice won't start from menu after latest upgrade

[David Hugh-Jones <davidhughjones@gmail.com>]

Package: openoffice.org
Version:1.1.3-9
Severity: important

After the latest upgrade, openoffice programs won't start from the
menu. The splash screen comes up, but at this point it hangs and
nothing happens. Simultaneously, I get a message in the syslog:

famd[2725]: fd 39 message length 1347375956 bytes exceeds max of 4136

which is then repeated several times.

programs will start if I launch them from the command line with
"openoffice" (having removed the lockfile).

apt-get remove --purge and apt-get install made no difference.

I have openoffice.org-debian-files, openoffice.org-gtk-gnome and
ooqstart-gnome installed.

Cheers
David