Bug#454996: openoffice.org: Crashes with "gcj linkage error"

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

[ better late than never ]
[ Cc'ing doko. Matthias, can you tell us what situations cause that "gcj
linkage error? ]

Hi,

Harri Pitkänen wrote:
> This can be reproduced in Writer by inserting a picture to an empty document,
> right-clicking the picture, selecting "Picture..." and opening the "Macro" tab.
> OpenOffice.org crashes with the following error on the console:
>   libgcj failure: gcj linkage error.
>   Incorrect library ABI version detected.  Aborting.

Just thinking about it a bit more. Did/do you have openoffice.org-gcj
installed? Does it affect the upgrade patch whether it is installed or
not?

> The crash happens ONLY with attached version of
> ~/.openoffice.org2/user/config/javasettings_Linux_X86_64.xml which has been created
> by an older version of OpenOffice.org from Debian. It does not occur if I recreate
> the file either by removing it or accessing the JRE settings in OpenOffice.org options
> and manually selecting the JRE. I have not tested this with upstream OpenOffice.org.

Hmm, OK. Maybe we can detect this and print a warning then..

> I use up-to-date sid but cannot tell when exactly this problematic version of
> javasettings_Linux_X86_64.xml has been created. I would guess that OpenOffice.org does
> not automatically update this file when gcj ABI changes. The only difference between

Yeah, probably.

Regards,

Rene