On 01/04/10 22:38, Bob Williams wrote:

One of my users has suddenly lost the ability to start Open Office, the other two can use it as usual. No configuration files have been changed, and this has only happened in the last 10 days or so. Typing 'soffice' at a terminal just returns the command line prompt (immediately). Even typing '/usr/bin/soffice' fails. Clicking on Desktop folder icons or start menu items also fails. Other programs all work as expected.

I cannot understand why or how this could happen. Any ideas/suggestions please?

Bob

Not that I'm an OpenOffice guy, but this is the way I'd go about getting some debugging info: First of all /usr/bin/soffice is a wrapper shell script. Add a "set -x" to the top of it (just below the #!/bin/sh shebang) to get some output. If it is a problem in the actual executable, try it under gdb, see if it is a crash - in which case get a backtrace, otherwise you will be able to see the return status. e.g.

gdb /usr/lib/ooo3/program/soffice.bin (gdb) run <crash> (gdb) bt ... backtrace ...

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