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

[Curt Howland <howland@priss.com>]

Package: openoffice.org-common
Version: 1:2.4.1-3
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/ooffice


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.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages openoffice.org-common depends on:
ii  dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.98.9     Common utilities for spelling dict
ii  openoffice.org-style-andromed 1:2.4.1-3  Default symbol style for OpenOffic

Versions of packages openoffice.org-common recommends:
ii  openoffice.org-style-crystal  1:2.4.1-3  Crystal symbol style for OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-style-tango    1:2.4.1-3  Tango symbol style for OpenOffice.

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