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

[Harri Pitkänen <hatapitk@iki.fi>]

On Friday 08 February 2008, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> 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?

I do not have openoffice.org-gcj installed, and apt/aptitude logs tell that it 
has not been installed at least during the last six months.

Anyway, trying again with that problematic version of 
javasettings_Linux_X86_64.xml and openoffice.org 1:2.3.1-4 (no 
openoffice.org-gcj) leads to a different, more manageable error. 
OpenOffice.org does not crash anymore, but will display an error dialog:
                            JRE is Defective
  OpenOffice.org requires a Java runtime environment (JRE) to perform this
  task. The selected JRE is defective. Please select another version or
  install a new JRE and select it under Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org -
  Java.

This will repeat about 15 times, and each time the following error is printed 
on the console:
  file:///usr/lib/gcj-4.1-71/libjvm.so.[Java framework]sunjavaplugin.so could 
not load Java runtime library:

After following the instructions and selecting manually Free Software 
Foundation JRE from the Java settings (the only option, no Sun JRE is 
installed on this system) the errors will go away.

Directory /usr/lib/gcj-4.1-71 which is mentioned in the new error message is 
not present here, but gcj-4.2-81 and gcj-4.3-90 are.

Harri