OpenOffice.org3.0 crashes during launch on Kubuntu

[Nicholas A. Suppiah]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

1) The OpenOffice.org 3.0 crashes each time I try to open Writer or the main OpenOffice.org itself. The error that appears after the Document Recovery dialog box appears:

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

But the next dialog box "The following files will be recovered" is blank.

I have tried to delete the HOME/.openoffice.org directory but still the same result.

2) Some info on my system.

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
$ apt-cache policy openoffice.org
openoffice.org:
  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://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-updates/main Packages
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main Packages
     1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages

$ apt-cache policy sun-java6-jre
sun-java6-jre:
  Installed: 6-10-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 6-10-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 6-10-0ubuntu2 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status