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Bug#408013: startup crash on amd64 - no suitable windowing system found, exiting.



tag 408013 + moreinfo
tag 408013 + unreproducible

Hi,

Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:25:08PM -0500, A. Maitland Bottoms wrote:
> > $ oowriter
> > no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
> 
> > ** (process:26780): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...
> 
> > On Etch systems I have tried, openoffice 2.0.4.dfsg.2-2 applications give the above
> > complaint on amd64. On i386 and powerpc the applications start up and function normally.
> 
> > Other X using applications work fine, so openoofice.org should have found a
> > suitable windowing system. In fact, the working i386 and powerpc systems were
> > displaying fine via ssh -X on my amd64 system.
> 
> > Since there is no Floating point complaint, this seems different from #407040.
> 
> Not reproducible for me with openoffice 2.0.4.dfsg.2-3 in unstable, remote
> displaying from amd64 to i386.  Trying now with the version in testing.

same here. Although it *is* known that some combinations of ssh -X do
not work because OOo checks the capabilities of the system and this
fails in some combinations. Although the symptoms afir ae different then
anyway..

> Your bug report doesn't include any information about the versions of OOo's
> dependencies that you have installed.  If the bug isn't reproducible here
> just with the testing version of OOo, that could be important information to
> have.

Yeah. Also any additional info...

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