Openoffice segfaults when nvidia X server is used

[OlivierP]

~$ oowriter

(soffice.bin.real:8740): 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:8740): Gdk-WARNING **: Error converting from UTF-8 to STRING: Conversion from character set 'UTF-8' to 'ISO-8859-1' is not supported
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice: line 233: 8740 Segmentation fault "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"

This occurs systematically when using nvidia's X driver (installed using the Dapper packages). When using "nv", openoffice runs successfully.

This behaviour has been ongoing since roughly Feb 15th, following several updates to the mesa libs & other x.org related libraries.

I susoect this is related to OpenGL or the nvidia driver itself, as since that time, 2 GL intensive games by iDsoftware that were able to run with ia32-libs ceased functioning, both with a segfault on libGL.so.1

Purging all ia32 related libs (including Openoffice), the nvidia related packages and reinstalling them does not fix the problem.

[jon_gunnar (jonrue)]

Looks for me to be the same as my Bug #33330?

[hva (francesco-hermanitosverdes)]

got it working at last ! (with nvidia driver)
i went to /usr/lib32 and noticed two different libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178, one in the same directory and the other in "nvidia" and a simlink ( libnvidia-tls.so.1) pinting to the first one. i made it point to the second one and it WORKED !
now i've my openoffice back.

cd /usr/lib32
sudo rm libnvidia-tls.so.1
sudo ln -s nvidia/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178 libnvidia-tls.so.1

[OlivierP (unineurone)]

The AMD64 nvidia-glx package contains the following 2 files:

/usr/lib32/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178 with 2108 bytes
/usr/lib32/nvidia/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178 with 2156 bytes
There's also a symlink created by ldconfig that points to /usr/lib32/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178

With this setup, Openoffice fails to start.

Replacing /usr/lib32/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178 by a copy of /usr/lib32/nvidia/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178 , running ldconfig
fixes the issue, as well as allowing iDSoftware's games to run.

Note that these 2 files are also present in the 32bit nvidia-glx package, and exhibit the same filesize difference. Checking against the original drivers (32 & 64 bit) downloaded from Nvidia, these files also exhibit different file sizes:

2352 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1/usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178
2324 NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1/usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178

2352 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2/usr/lib32/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178

2324 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2/usr/lib32/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178

3016 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2/usr/lib/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178

3408 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-8178-pkg2/usr/lib/tls/libnvidia-tls.so.1.0.8178

[OlivierP (unineurone)]

Package nvidia-glx 1.0.8178+2.6.15.6-2 still contains the "bug", and breaks openoffice.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

 linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15 (2.6.15.6-3) dapper; urgency=low
 .
   * Stop using the hideous "mangle TLS symlinks on boot" hack, which was
     second-guessing our linker (which appears to do the right thing anyway)
     - Removed the init script and /etc/default fragment from nvidia-glx
     - Install TLS libraries directly to /usr/lib/tls and /usr/lib32/tls.

[mattwire (bugs-mrwire)]

Latest apt-get updates today fixed the problem for me.
Thankyou.