Comment # 4 on bug 918221 from Wolfgang Bauer

(In reply to Axel K�llhofer from comment #3)
> 4) Now, the interesting bit, you actually gave me a hint by mentioning
> "which templates do you have installed".
> 
> I did something one should not really do, I tried:
> 
> su
> 
> dbus-launch libreoffice
> 
> Still the same error, but then I tried:
> 
> su -
> 
> dbus-launch libreoffice
> 
> and this worked!
> 
> Now this cannot be related to permissions, root is root, so what could be
> the difference?
> 
> As a normal user I tried:
> 
> unset LANG ; libreoffice
> 
> and that works, too.
> 
> So apologies for not mentioning that I am using de_DE.UTF-8 as default for
> my user accounts.

Well, this would indeed suggest that the problem seems to be related to the
locale I think.
FYI, "su -" sets up a completely clean root environment, whereas "su" takes
over some variables from the user's environment.

Strange though, I did test with LANG set to de-DE.UTF-8 here.
Could you please post the complete output of "locale", as user and after
running "su -"?

PS: The files in /usr/share/ooo/ are just symlinks to the ones in
/usr/share/templates/libreoffice/. So copying them over from one directory to
the other doesn't change anything of course.
It works fine here with the exact same structure though.