Openoffice fails to start

[Leen Toelen]

Hi,

The linux-restricted-modules package is not found.

#dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12
No packages found matching linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12.

# dpkg -l ia32-libs
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version              Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii  ia32-libs            1.4ubuntu1           ia32 shared libraries
for use on amd64 and ia64 systems

# dpkg -l openoffice.org2
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                 Version              Description
+++-====================-====================-========================================================
ii  openoffice.org2      1.9.125+2.0beta2-1ub OpenOffice.org Office
suite version 2.0


Installing the restricted modules gives the same error:
# apt-get upgrade linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
 ia32-libs
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/8816kB of archives.
After unpacking 1253kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y

Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 56459 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace ia32-libs 1.4ubuntu1 (using
.../ia32-libs_1.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement ia32-libs ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2': No such file or directory
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks a lot for your help so far!

Regards,
Leen Toelen

On 9/15/05, Matthias Klose <doko at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> what does say
> 
>   dpkg -l linux-restricted-modules-2.6.12
> 
> 
> 
> Leen Toelen writes:
> > Both are installed.
> >
> > # apt-get install ia32-libs-openoffice.org
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > ia32-libs-openoffice.org is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >
> > # apt-get install openoffice.org2
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > openoffice.org2 is already the newest version.
> > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
> >
> > But this gives an error apparently:
> >
> > apt-get install ia32-libs
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > Building dependency tree... Done
> > The following packages will be upgraded:
> >   ia32-libs
> > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> > Need to get 0B/8816kB of archives.
> > After unpacking 1253kB of additional disk space will be used.
> >
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > (Reading database ... 56459 files and directories currently installed.)
> > Preparing to replace ia32-libs 1.4ubuntu1 (using
> > .../ia32-libs_1.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
> > Unpacking replacement ia32-libs ...
> > dpkg: error processing
> > /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >  unable to create `./usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2': No such file or directory
> > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> >  /var/cache/apt/archives/ia32-libs_1.4ubuntu2_amd64.deb
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> >
> >
> > However, this file seems to exist.
> >
> > # ls /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2
> > /usr/lib32/libGL.so.1.2
> >
> >
> > The system is amd64, does this matter? Do I ahve to stop X in order to
> > install ia32-libs?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Leen toelen
> >
> >
> > On 9/15/05, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > never seen that. is ia32-libs-openoffice.org installed?
> > > just try to update using synaptic or from the commandline:
> > >   sudo apt-get update
> > >   sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > >   sudo apt-get install openoffice.org2
> > >
> > > Leen Toelen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I have installed OpenOffice on an ubuntu server installation which
> > > > initially did not have X or Gnome installed.  Right now X and a
> > > > (minimal) Gnome are working, but OpenOffice fails to start from both
> > > > the console and the Gnome menus. This is the error message:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>ooffice2
> > > >
> > > > /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/javaldx: error while loading shared
> > > > libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > > /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/pagein: error while loading shared
> > > > libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > > /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared
> > > > libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>oocalc2
> > > >
> > > > /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/javaldx: error while loading shared
> > > > libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > > /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/pagein: error while loading shared
> > > > libraries: libm.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > > /usr/lib/openoffice2/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared
> > > > libraries: libdl.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > > > directory
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >>locate libdl.so.2
> > > >
> > > > /lib/libdl.so.2
> > > > /lib32/tls/libdl.so.2
> > > > /lib32/libdl.so.2
> > > >
> > > >>locate libm.so.6
> > > >
> > > > /lib/libm.so.6
> > > > /lib32/tls/libm.so.6
> > > > /lib32/libm.so.6
> > > >
> > > > Anyone knows what might be the cause for this? Is there a package that
> > > > still has to be installed?
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > > Leen Toelen
> > > >
> > >
> > >
>