Openoffice will not open

[Guest]

I have just installed Fiesty on 3 laptops for my friends. Only problem is Openoffice will not open on any of them. The splash screen comes up then goes away and the computer sits there like a paper weight.

I have unistalled and reinstalled by Adept and again via apt-get in konsole

Any help is appreciated.

Hardware is:

Compaq EVO N410c
Intel Pentium 3
512 megs RAM
1.3 gig processor

I am using Fiesty and openoffice on my desktop with issue so this noob is very cornfused

[SheeEttin]

Re: Openoffice will not open

Open up Konsole and execute "ooffice -writer". Post the result.

[Guest]

Re: Openoffice will not open

Hi thanks for answering.

Here is what I received from Konsole

** (process:6005): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...

Got the same from all 3 so at least the issue appears to be consistant

J

[penguin.ch]

Re: Openoffice will not open

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=50313

[adamsjw2]

Re: Openoffice will not open

I had this problem a year or so ago. I fixed it by using adept to uninstall all the OO files. I then rebooted and reinstalled the OOfiles that I needed and that fixed the problem. If you're only going to use oo-writer, than only the files you need for that, etc. Don't forget the dictionaries, thesarus, etc. I also didn't install the OO pre-launcher, thinking that might have been part of the problem.