Openoffice won't load and won't terminate afterwards

["Vjekoslav Brkic" <vbrkic@math.hr>]

Hello everybody,

I'm running Sarge on a machine which eth boots a dozen other machines, 
exporting to them a read only root filesystem (also Sarge).
I try to start openoffice on those machines and is stops at the splash 
screen, progress bar at 2/3. Sometimes it even opens a titled blank window.
There are about 5 openoffice processes shown, all started with identical 
command line, and first of them can't be killed even with sigkill.
Same happens if it's called from the terminal or from xfce panel.

Of course, it worked until that one moment. Upgrade to newer version didn't 
do anything.

Thanks for any help,

Vjekoslav