Re: OpenOffice.org hangs on start up

[Russ Cook <russcook@mbo.net>]

Mr. Wang Long wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After a recently upgrade, OOo in sid (amd64, version 1:3.0.1-4+b1,
> with Gnome) no longer works anymore. It just stops while showing OOo's
> splash screen, with CPU usage 0% and no output at all on command line.
>
> Indeed it is difficult to locate the problem, because I cannot find an
> options like "-verbose" or "-debug" to obtain more information: the
> man page of ooffice is for OOo version 2, and "ooffice -help" lists
> little useful options.
>
> I tried "ooffice -nologo", then tried to rename the folder
> "~/.openoffice.org/", then tried to remove package
> "openoffice.org-gtk" and "openoffice.org-gnome", but none of those
> efforts works.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks!
>
> Best Regards,
> Wang Long
>
>
>   
I don't know if this is the same problem, but yesterday I just fixed a 
related issue on my system
(AMD64, Sid).  When trying to start OpenOffice from the pull-down menu 
in Gnome, I got the
"please wait" clock symbol, but the program never started.  Running 
"sudo apt-cache showpkg openoffice.org" revealed many missing modules, 
including openoffice.org-writer, which prevented
the word processor from running (it wasn't installed).  The problem was 
solved by running "sudo apt-get install -reinstall openoffice.org" .

Don't know if this problem is the same as yours, but thought I'd offer 
it as something to check.
Good luck.