Bug#486913: /usr/bin/ooffice: Will not open anything, "User interface language cannot be determined."

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 486913 + moreinfo
tag 486913 + unreproducible
thanks

Hi,

Curt Howland wrote:
> Up to date Sid. Just ran Dselect to make sure there was no further updates today.
> 
> When trying to open any document, spreadsheet or presentation, or start oowriter,
> oocalc, etc, from the command line, the splash graphic for OOo 2.4 comes up, but
> the progress bar does not get anywhere. An error dialog comes up with:
> 
>   The application cannot be started.
>   The user interface language cannot be determined.
>      OK
> 
> Pressing OK merely closes the application. My environment has LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> which as far as I know has been there for a long time, and OOo worked a few days
> ago.

Works here. The message you get comes when there are resource files etc.
missing. Which packages of OOo do you have installed?

You you have *en-US*.res in /usr/lib/openoffice/program/resource?

Also it can be that simply (because of fs errors etc) your fs (and
therefore OOos files) became corrupted...

Regards,

Rene