libjvmfwk.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[GiuseppeVerde]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When starting OOo today, I get the following error message:
$ ooimpress
/media/projects/lib-openoffice/program/soffice.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libjvmfwk.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

it's installed on the system, though:
$ locate libjvmfwk
/usr/lib/ure/lib/libjvmfwk.so.3

Adding the following line into a new file called /etc/ld.so.conf.d:
/usr/lib/ure/lib

and then running ldconfig solves the problem, and OOo impress starts again.

The only bit that's unusual in my situation is that /usr/share/openoffice and friends are on an sd card, since my eee only has 4GB of root fs storage.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Which version of Ubuntu and openoffice.org are you using?

[GiuseppeVerde (launchpad-digitasaru)]

Ah crumbs. Sorry. dpkg -l openoffice.org
ii openoffice.org 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu2 full-featured office productivity suite

in Jaunty

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

You mentioned /usr/share/openoffice, but it looks like you moved /usr/lib/openoffice instead... is that what you did? If so did you symlink it back the correct location properly? Because it looks like you did not from the output of the error message.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

soffice.bin has a RPATH to ure:

RPATH $ORIGIN:$ORIGIN/../basis-link/program:$ORIGIN/../basis-link/ure-link/lib

Which is probably why you are seeing this problem since you moved it from where it is supposed to be located.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Hint... in the future if you move things around that are important like parts of /usr you need to make sure all the symlinks in the part you moved point to the right locations.

../basis-link/ure-link points to ../../ure which is not where it is any more after you moved the usr/lib/openoffice directory. There may be other problems as well but I'll leave that up to you to find out as you broke it by moving the files from where they are supposed to be.

[GiuseppeVerde (launchpad-digitasaru)]

cool beans; sorry to have horked things and wasted your time. Thanks for the info, though!