OpenOffice.Org Word Processor crash on launch of Bibliography Database

[Steve Ahlcrona]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When launching Bibliography Database from the Tools Menu, OpenOffice.Org Word Processor crashes. There is no particular error, but there is an indication that the open files was saved and will be recovered at next launching of OpenOffice.Org Word Processor. I have attached the screenshot indicating the crash. The error also occurs regardless of type of document opened.

Application Info:
OpenOffice.org 3.1.1
OOO31m19 (Build:9420)
Version: 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 (openoffice.org-writer)

System Info:
Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 8 12:17:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Fritz Heinrichmeyer (fritz-heinrichmeyer)]

[SOLUTION] install openoffice.org-base or the complete openoffice.org. If installed from cdrom, openoffice is not completely installed. Bibliography need the database module. I can imagine that this module was not packed due to cdrom size constrains.

There should be a warning somewhere for this fact.

[Timothy W. Tacker (tim-tacker)]

I confirm that I had this same problem with OpenOffice 3.1 on Ubuntu 9.10. I was able to resolve the problem by installing the openoffice.org package. I suspect that I only needed to install the openoffice.org-base package to resolve the problem; however, the openoffice.org-base package is installed with the openoffice.org package.

[bacon (aaldert-van-wijk)]

fix works for me too thanks Timothy.

[nmsalgueiro (nmsalgueiro)]

Exactly the same problem here. I installed the *openoffice.org-base* package and this solved the problem.

Linux 2.6.31-20-generic #58-Ubuntu SMP i686 GNU/Linux
openoffice.org-base 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.1
openoffice.org-writer 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1.1