Re: Instant crash with Linux OpenOffice

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Hi,
> :
> :I have recently upgraded the root fs to Hammer on one of my machines. Since
> :then, I have been unable to run any version of OpenOffice.
> :Previously, misc/openoffice2-bin and misc/openoffice3-bin ran fine.
> :
> :The OS is DragonFly 2.2.2-RELEASE.
> :
> :The splash screen begins to appear and then OpenOffice crashes with some weird
> :errors:
> :
> :$ soffice
> :javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
> :sh: g/,: No such file or directory
> :
> :$ soffice
> :javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! 
> :sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> :sh: -c: line 1: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> :
> :I'm not sure how to debug this.
> :
> :-- 
> :Francois Tigeot
>
>     I've had similar issues with OpenOffice but I have never been able
>     to figure out what's wrong.  I don't think it is HAMMER per-say, but
>     instead something related to our linux emulation that is breaking.
>     It seems to happen more consistently with HAMMER but issues also pop
>     up with UFS.

OO 2.X also consistently useless on Mac OSX 10.3.9 with all-UFS fs. Shows OO 
splash screen, dies and goes where all responsible bloatware should take itself.

OOS 1.X did work on Mac UFS & 10.3.9.

OO 2.X works OK on OSX 10.4 with hfs+ fs.

>     It could be related to the path prefixing the linux emulation does
>     to give priority to the emulation directory structure on lookups.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@backplane.com>

Probably a lot more to it than that.... I'd point at javishness, but Mac's have 
/* oxymoron warning */ fairly usable java

Bill