Bug#430466: crashes on startup (Unknown error forking main binary)
On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 16:20 +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> tag 430466 + moreinfo
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> Carlos Moffat wrote:
> > OpenOffice is crashing right after startup with the message:
> >
> > ** (process:4628): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...
>
> That's only the message *that* it crashes and the starter says that,
> nothing else.
>
Yeah, I know. But I don't know enough to get more info. I tried to get a
backtrace with gdb and failed miserably :)
> > I haven't been able to figure out anything else, regrettably.
>
> This is a completely unusable bugreport. You even didn't include the
> package information. What I first would check is your libcairo2 version
> if you have -gtk installed (libcairo2 1.4.8 is broken).
>
The package information was not included by reportbug-ng, for some
reason (see below). I do have libcairo2 1.4.8. I donwgraded to 1.4.6 and
now OO works again. So this is just a duplicate bug report of this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=430550
> Furter, I'd check whether your crashes are like some others already
> reported with the above message....
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
Carlos
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21.070604
Debian Release: lenny/sid
500 unstable www.debian-multimedia.org
500 unstable ftp.debian.org
1 experimental ftp.debian.org
--- Package information. ---
Depends (Version) | Installed
==================================================-+-===============
openoffice.org-core (= 2.2.1-2+b1) | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-writer | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-calc | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-impress | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-draw | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-math | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-base | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-filter-binfilter | 2.2.1-2+b1
openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev | 2.2.1-2
openoffice.org-java-common (>> 2.2.0-4) | 2.2.1-2
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