open office fails to start this week

[Willem Riede]

On 01/31/2006 10:16:43 PM, Neal Becker wrote:
> sean wrote:
> 
> > on amd64, open office refuses to start. The Open Office blue
> >   splash box comes up, then it dies. Same result from
> > oowriter ooimpress oocalc, and
> > /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.
> > 
> > openoffice.org-core-2.0.1.1-8.2
> > openoffice.org-writer-2.0.1.1-8.2
> > openoffice.org-calc-2.0.1.1-8.2
> > openoffice.org-impress-2.0.1.1-8.2
> > 
> > It worked last week!
> > 
> > Anybody else seeing this?
> > 
> > sean
> > 
> Lot of problems with new kernels on x86_64 with threads.  Try an older
> kernel.

Old enough for you?

[wriede at athena ~]$ uname -a
Linux athena.riede.org 2.6.15-1.1826.2.10_FC5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 11 18:13:37 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I don't think that theory flies (I upgraded only openoffice, not the kernel since it last worked).

Regards, Willem Riede.