Bug#575758: openoffice.org-impress: impress systematically crashes on startup

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Rene Engelhard, le Mon 29 Mar 2010 09:31:51 +0200, a écrit :
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 02:05:32AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > This version of impress systematically crashes on startup, even on
> > a blank presentation. I tried to unset LANG & LC_CTYPE, as well as
> > .openoffice.org, dropping openoffice.org-gnome, without any change. I
> > tried to change the user, and that did make it work. I wonder what the
> 
> So it does not "systematically" crash

With my environment it does.

> (BTW, why did you use such a crappy subject anyway?)

What could have been better?

> > difference can be in both case, as the rest of my desktop was exactly
> > the same (ssh -X theotheruser@localhost). Other modules lik writer or
> 
> It is not *exactly* the same, unless you have the identical user configs
> on yor "old" and the "new" user.

The rest of the desktop (i.e. wm and such) _is_ the same, since it's the
same session: I am doing

$ ooimpress
crash
$ ssh -X theotheruser@localhost
other$ ooimpress
doesn't crash

I also have erased both users' .openoffice.org* to make sure these don't
interfere.

Samuel