The application cannot be started. A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libreoffice (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: libreoffice
localc
OR
lodraw
OR
libreoffice
ETC.
You get the following popup:
"The application cannot be started.
A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration. "
Afterwards, you get the following on the tty:
[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsD
javaldx failed!
Running as root this doesn't happen.
Upgrading to the latest did not help.
This same message seems to be plauging people with various different causes.
Stupid message. Which central configuration are you trying to access and how.
I have no ~/.config/
I do have a ~/.openoffice.org and ~/.openoffice.org2 directories, with correct ownership.
dbus is running, though it had problems earlier (but if it wasn't running ubuntu-bug would have died).
gnome-settings-
I have not intentionally installed any "extensions".
Workaround: sudo chown -R whitis.whitis /home/whitis/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libreoffice 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1e1a99f31ec2933
CheckboxSystem: edda5d4f616ca79
Date: Sat Jun 4 18:04:12 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
I am having the same problem here on both 64 bit and 32 bit Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal across 3 different machines with different specs. This is limiting my deployment of 11.04 because people obviously need an office suite!
Running libreoffice as root works fine.
Running libreoffice as a normal user (accounts are coming from Likewise Open in this case) results in the following on the console:
[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsD ocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!
I also got a pk-gtk-module error, but that must not be related as turning the module off in Gconf made that error line go away but the main problem persisted.
The problems have occurred for brand-new user accounts with nothing in their home directories.
I have tried: e-test and trying the previous two steps in it
- removing and reinstalling libreoffice (no change)
- switching JVMs back and forth from Sun Java 6 and OpenJDK
- creating a .libreoffice directory manually and chmodding it 777
- creating a local group named the same as my username (one does not exist normally due to the accounts coming from Likewise), adding my username to it, and changing the group on that .libreoffice directory to the new group
- setting HOME to a new directory (chmodded 777) called /tmp/libreoffic
Nothing