OpenOffice used to load but now segfaults - I don't know why

Bug #16034 reported by Frank Bob
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
openoffice.org-amd64 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Matthias Klose

Bug Description

Immediately after install of Hoary64, OpenOffice worked well.

Now it segfaults when I try to start it. I don't know which package I installed
might have caused this.
It is the same crash wether I use gnome or kde.

I saw elsewhere that fonts are a common problem but I think I ruled this out
using the steps here:
http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/fontguide.html#6

Solution:
Downgrade openoffice.org-bin to Warty 1.1.2-2ubuntu6-1

Here is the error log. I don't think it is very helpful

Error log:

frank@Monster64:~$ openoffice

(process:13504): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by Xlib

(process:13504): Gdk-WARNING **: can not set locale modifiers

(soffice.bin.real:13504): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING:
Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported

(soffice.bin.real:13504): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING:
Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
Segmentation fault

Revision history for this message
Chris Jones (cmsj-bugz-ubu) wrote :

I too am seeing this on the amd64 hoary.

Revision history for this message
Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

Closing this one, the current openoffice.org/openoffice.org2 packages in breezy
don't segfault anymore.

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