openoffice.org-2.0 crashes

[Sharon Kimble]

Sharon Kimble wrote:

> I'm finding that the current OpenOffice.org writer and spreadsheet
> programs are crashing virtually every time they're being run with this
> error message when run from the commandline;-
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> $ openoffice.org-2.0 -writer
> /usr/lib/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice: line 145:   355 Segmentation
> fault "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> Has anyone got any solutions or workarounds please, because atm its
> unusable.
> 
Not seeing any replies or hints, I've removed the fedora rpms for openoffice 
and installed the OpenOffice.org ones, and now its all nice and stable and 
working well. :) Just thought I'd post a solution in case anyone else has the 
same problem.

Sharon.
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