Bug#637829: Warning: failed to launch javaldx

[Bob Vincent <bobvin@pillars.net>]

FWIW, I resolved the problem this way, in Ubuntu 11.10.

From the command line, I ran:

strace -f -o localc.trace localc

When the spreadsheet app started, I immediately closed it.

Then I searched through the localc.trace file for the string "javaldx" and found the following line:

execve("/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../ure/bin/javaldx", ["/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../"..., "-env:INIFILENAME=vnd.sun.star.pa"...], [/* 60 vars */]) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Apparently, libreoffice is searching for the "javaldx" binary in /usr/lib/libreoffice/ure/bin/javaldx but it isn't there.

So I looked for it:

locate javaldx

The locate program found it in /usr/lib/ure/bin/javaldx

So I symlinked the directory as follows:

cd /usr/lib/libreoffice
ln -s ../ure .

Problem solved, or worked-around at least.