Christian Krog Madsen » OpenSUSE 10.3 http://christian.krog-madsen.dk Opinions, thoughts and tips Sat, 14 May 2011 16:45:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 OpenOffice troubles http://christian.krog-madsen.dk/2008/01/04/openoffice-troubles/ http://christian.krog-madsen.dk/2008/01/04/openoffice-troubles/#comments Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:02:11 +0000 Christian Krog Madsen http://www.krog-madsen.dk/wp/2008/01/04/openoffice-troubles/ Continue reading →]]> Since I upgraded my T60 from OpenSUSE 10.2 to 10.3, I have been unable to start OpenOffice. No matter what I did the OpenSUSE customized splash screen appeared, but the progress bar never moved. Starting OO as root, it actually managed to freeze X, requiring me to bail out of X with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

To debug the problem I tried stracing oowriter without much luck. Around the net people reported various similar problems, but none of the suggested solutions worked. Eventually I found a bug report in Novell’s Bugzilla where Martin Tessun explained, that with the ATI Radeon fglrx driver, LD_LIBRARY_PATH must be set to point to /usr/X11R6/lib:/usr/X11R6/lib64. True enough, after exporting LD_LIBRARY_PATH with these paths, OO started without a hitch.

To make the change permanent, I added the export statement to /etc/profile.local.

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