[ppa] openoffice.org-kde broken - oowriter crashes with "error - missing word count in dictionary file"

[Peter Bienstman]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

No matter what document I try to, oowriter always crashes on startup. This is the console output:

QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at a time.
QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active
ASSERT: "slOpt" in file /build/buildd/kde4libs-4.1.3/kdeui/kernel/kstyle.cpp, line 3314
QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at a time.
QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active
QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at a time.
QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active
error - missing word count in dictionary file
Hash Manager Error : 4
QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at a time.
QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active
QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at a time.
QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active
QPainter::begin: A paint device can only be painted by one painter at a time.
QPainter::setWorldTransform: Painter not active

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

openoffice.org-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1
  Candidate: 1:3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.skynet.be intrepid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.skynet.be intrepid-security/main Packages
     1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2 0
        500 http://ubuntu.mirrors.skynet.be intrepid/main Packages

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

I am experiencing the same.

But apparently intrepid is not officially supporting openoffice 3, not even through backports: the package giving errors to us is a personal package among the personal package archives.

As a workaround, Sun's official openoffice from www.openoffice.org seem to work.
Not all languages have deb available, but rpms translated with alien seem to install fine.

[Sergio Callegari (callegar)]

As another workaround simply remove the openoffice-kde package.

This bug comes from the openoffice packs interacting badly with kde in intrepid. You remove the kde support and it works again.

[Alan Swartz (apswartz)]

Duplicate of 306908?