Can only open Libre Office from SUDO command line Attention Avi Greenbury

[jimmckenzie at earthlink.net]

jim at jim64bitmintlinux1104box ~ $ libreoffice
[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed! 
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
jim at jim64bitmintlinux1104box ~ $ 


>In the hope of also being useful to anybody else who might have this
>problem, I'm sending this reply back to ubuntu-users. Hope you don't
>mind! :)

Not at all, I'm assuming this will happen to someone else sooner or later.


jimmckenzie wrote:
> Lib-Off won't open any other way.

>What happens when you try? sudo should be reserved for systems
>administration tasks; if something that doesn't need administrative
>privileges (like an office suite) doesn't run without sudo that
<>doesn't mean it needs sudo, that just means it's broken :) We'll likely
>>have more luck making LibreOffice work normally than trying to make it
>work with sudo.

>Do you get any error messages when you try to run it without sudo? If
>not, can you try starting it from the command line and seeing if
>there's anything enlightening in there? Feel free to just paste
>everything into a pastebin and paste a link in reply here.