OOo 3.0 from PPA: cannot start Writer

[Dotan Cohen]

2009/1/26 NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>:
> Not sure. You can try starting with strace (man strace); unfortunately
> I'm not familiar enough with strace to give you any further guidence
> there. You may also want to check on launchpad to see if there are any
> similar occurances with the PPA version.
>
>

Thanks. If anyone knows what this means, here is the trace:

hardy1 at hardy1-laptop:~$ strace openoffice -writer
execve("/usr/bin/openoffice", ["openoffice", "-writer"], [/* 35 vars */]) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x805e000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7f64000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=85777, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 85777, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f4f000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260e\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1364388, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1369712, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE,
3, 0) = 0xb7e00000
mmap2(0xb7f49000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x149) = 0xb7f49000
mmap2(0xb7f4c000, 9840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f4c000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1,
0) = 0xb7dff000
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7dff6b0,
limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0,
limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
mprotect(0xb7f49000, 4096, PROT_READ)   = 0
munmap(0xb7f4f000, 85777)               = 0
getpid()                                = 11772
rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_DFL}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
geteuid32()                             = 1000
brk(0)                                  = 0x805e000
brk(0x807f000)                          = 0x807f000
getppid()                               = 11771
stat64("/home/hardy1", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/bin/openoffice", O_RDONLY)   = 3
fcntl64(3, F_DUPFD, 10)                 = 10
close(3)                                = 0
fcntl64(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x8055a30, ~[RTMIN RT_1], 0}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0
read(10, "#!/bin/sh\n/usr/lib/openoffice/pr"..., 8192) = 52
clone(child_stack=0,
flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD,
child_tidptr=0xb7dff6f8) = 11773
wait4(-1,