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OOffice Failure in fresh, clean Edgy

Asked by John Buczek

Warning: Linux newbie... but I have 25 years experience supporting Win.

I've been trying to learn Ubuntu. I downloaded and installed Edgy clean and fresh then installed all current updates.

When I tried OpenOffice the splash showed and closed but the app did not open. I uninstalled OO then reinstalled it using Synaptic with no change.

I ran /usr/bin/oowriter from the CLI and got:

 ** (process:7197): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...

None of the other OO apps will start either.

This may not be relevant but I also downloaded TreePadLiteLX which worked fine in Dapper and it does the same thing although when run in the CLI the error is: "runtime error 230".

Any suggestions would be welcome.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#1

This

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=2311671

seems to indicate that it could have something to do with your resolution settings in xorg.

Try to reconfigure your xorg.conf with

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

I hope this helps.

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