open office will not launch

[don hardaway]

When i try to launch open office writer or calc the open office logo pops up and immediately disappears and nothing launches.

[David Johns (sysdrum)]

What is the error in the terminal ?
run ooffice -writer terminal and see what error it outputs
if it gives you the this error { ** (process:7837): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ... }

are you running a ati card if so is it a 9200 series

[Christian Wicke (launchpad-christian)]

I can confirm this bug. oofice crashes each time I start it.
I'am using a AMD K6-2 with 300 MHz and a Matrox Graphics MGA G200 AGP graphic card.
I tried with 128 MB and 256 MB RAM. I also tried with vesa xorg-driver and with mga.

I attached the Stacktrace I get, when I run ooffice -calc.
Does anybody know, what is causing that problem and whether there is a work-around?

Thank you very much
Christian

[ScottMiller (stmiller)]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2749756

Same problem reported on the forums here.

[Venkatraman.S (blizzardz)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Christian Wicke (launchpad-christian)]

Hello,

I switched to Debian. There I didn't have this problem. I cannot try out
the new Ubuntu release because the computer is at my father who lives
300km away. So I don't mind if you close the bug.

Christian
Venkatraman.S schrieb:
> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been
> any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue
> for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
>