Bug#566189: openoffice.org: Openoffice crashes on startup
forwarded 566189 Thorsten Behrens <thb@openoffice.org>
retitle 566189 openoffice.org: Openoffice crashes on startup with DeploymentException
thanks
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:09:25AM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:38:48PM +0100, Ferry Toth wrote:
> > After upgrading today from openoffice.org (1:3.1.1-8) to 1:3.1.1-14, Openoffice crashes immediately on startup.
> >
> > Starting from the command line lets me pick the document type, then crashes as well with:
> >
> > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::deployment::DeploymentException'
> >
> > Deleting .openoffice.org did not help.
>
> We just had the same case on IRC and it turned out to be a corrupt
> file.
... which according to upstream is a real bug. (set fwd)
> He removed the whole directory (com.sun.star.comp.deployment.component.PackageRegistryBackend; you can also remove everything below cache if you wish)
> and then it works. (Of course if you want all the extensions then you
> need to reinstall the packages; ignore the errors about not existing extensions
> before unpacking, they're expected in this case)
Use this hackaround for now.
> I'll now try to debootstrap an old squeeze wizth 1:3.1.1-8, install
> OOo with some extensions and upgrade...
Interestingly I can't reproduce this in a 1:3.1.1-8->1:3.1.1-14 upgrade
(installed: openoffice.org openoffice.org-sdbc-postgresql)
Grüße/Regards,
René
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