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OpenOffice.org generic internal error on Ubuntu

Asked by Nphyx

Every time I try to open any OpenOffice.org application I get a generic error message during the splash screen that reads "The application cannot be started. An internal error occured."
This started a few days after install, possibly after an update or after installing another software package, it's hard to say for sure. Also of note, during the time it was working I opened one document, which got corrupted and eventually disappeared from my filesystem during a disk scan in the next day or so.

I can open write with no problems using "sudo ooffice -writer" from the console, leading me to believe it's a permission problem or something limited to my user. However I haven't used linux for over ten years up until last week and I don't really know my way around it yet, I have no idea where the openoffice binaries, config files, etc. would be located.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

What release of Ubuntu are you using ?
cat /etc/issue
will show you.

You can try this from a terminal type:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure openoffice.org
sudo dpkg-reconfigure openoffice.org-writer
and than try to start openoffice by typing:
openoffice-writer
or by the menu choice.

Or try to purge configuration and completely reinstall them from command line:
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install openoffice.org
sudo apt-get --reinstall --purge install openoffice.org-writer

HTH

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