Openoffice not starting

[Steve]

On Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:45:09 +0100, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Hmm.  It may be a coincidence, but gmail is acting up, also.
>
> When starting in standard view, the progress thermometer at the top of
> the page gets almost all the way to the right, then hangs.  If I: Set
> basic HTML as default view it opens normally.
>
> On 8/6/09, drew einhorn <drew.einhorn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I used synaptic to reinstall all the open office components.
>> Just the ones that were already installed.  Did not add any new  
>> components.
>> It did not help.
>>
>> I assumed one of the files hidden in my home directory .openoffice...
>> something or other has been corrupted.  I blew them all away with a:
>>
>>    rm -rf .openoffice*
>>
>> That didn't help either.
>>
>> I'm still assuming it's something corrupted in my home directory, but  
>> what?
>>
>> --
>> Drew Einhorn
>>
>
>
Java problem?

A freind had a similar problem and if I remember rightly he purged  
everything to do with Java. I can't get hold of him at the moment to  
confirm this though.


-- 
Steve