Openoffice doesn't launch after gutsy upgrade.

[Tessa]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org-writer

I'm running gutsy on amd64, just did the upgrade last night. However, now when I try to run Openoffice Writer (either from the menu or by double clicking a opendoc file) it displays the openoffice progress bar, and then just closes; I never get the Writer window.

Running from the commandline doesn't produce any output that helps debug what's happening. Any ideas would be welcomed, since I really need openoffice to work.

[Tessa (unit3)]

Just reinstalled openoffice.org-writer from a different mirror to see if that made a difference, and it doesn't. Also, oodraw, oocalc, oobase all exhibit the same behaviour. :(

[Jacopo Salvestrini (jsidew)]

i'm having the same problem.
running ooffice -writer from Terminal outputs the following:

X-Error: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)
        Major opcode: 53 (X_CreatePixmap)
        Resource ID: 0x4c00475
        Serial No: 5486 (5486)
These errors are reported asynchronously,
set environment variable SAL_SYNCHRONIZE to 1 to help debugging

i'm using Gutsy i386

[Jacopo Salvestrini (jsidew)]

i think this bug is caused by an incompatibility between openoffice (2.3, tested on it only) and a particular gtkrc file (maybe bad formed), since i've noticed that oo writer starts without any problem if i change the gtk theme - the X_CreatePixmap note gave me the idea.
here is attached the gtkrc file which makes the incompatibility issue.

i don't know how to make a gtk theme, so maybe someone expert in theming could be useful.

thank you.

[khoma (khoma1985)]

same problem here with some gtk themes. if you don't want to change the gtk theme another solution is sudo apt-get remove openoffice2-gnome but oo wil be very ugly.