Bug#609659: libreoffice-gcj: handle "wrong version of gcj being used" gracefully
Package: libreoffice-gcj
Version: 1:3.3.0~rc2-3
Severity: normal
When the version of gcj that LibreOffice is configured to use is not
ABI-compatible with the version used to compile libreoffice-gcj, and
LibreOffice tries to use Java, LibreOffice aborts with error message:
libgcj failure: gcj linkage error.
That is, the whole LibreOffice process aborts (quits).
That is rather extreme. Please consider one of the following:
1) Warn, either on stderr or with a pop-up, that the native compiled
jars will not be used because of incompatible ABI, and fallback to
using the bytecode jars themselves (interpreted or JIT-compiled
in-memory or whatever technique gij uses).
2) Silently fallback to using the bytecode jars themselves.
Possibly this is gij's bug rather than libreoffice's bug. I'm not
sure. In that case, please reassign (against the lenny version of
gcj/gij/...).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_LU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_LU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages libreoffice-gcj depends on:
ii bsh-gcj 2.0b4-12 Java scripting environment (BeanSh
ii gcj-jre [java-gcj-comp 4:4.4.5-2 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libgcj-bc 4.4.5-2 Link time only library for use wit
ii libgcj-common 1:4.4.5-2 Java runtime library (common files
ii libhsqldb-java-gcj 1.8.0.10-9 Java SQL database engine (native c
ii libreoffice-core 1:3.3.0~rc2-3 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii libreoffice-java-commo 1:3.3.0~rc2-3 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
libreoffice-gcj recommends no packages.
libreoffice-gcj suggests no packages.
Versions of packages libreoffice-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.6.0-3 generic font configuration library
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.2-8lenny4 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4+lenny3 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.7-2+lenny4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1.1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgraphite3 1:2.3.1-0.2 SILGraphite - a "smart font" rende
ii libgstreamer-plugi 0.10.30-1 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.30-1 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.11-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libhyphen0 2.4-4 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu44 4.4.2-1 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.1-1 simple thesaurus library
ii libneon27-gnutls 0.29.3-3 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.27-2+lenny4 PNG library - runtime
ii librdf0 1.0.10-3 Redland Resource Description Frame
ii libreoffice-common 1:3.3.0~rc2-3 office productivity suite -- arch-
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-2 X11 Session Management library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8o-2 SSL shared libraries
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-3 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-2 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1-3 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-3 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii ttf-opensymbol 1:3.2.1-7 OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii ure 1.7.0+LibO3.3.0~rc2-3 LibreOffice UNO runtime environmen
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages libreoffice-java-common depends on:
ii libreoffice-common 1:3.3.0~rc2-3 office productivity suite -- arch-
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