Getting OpenOffice.org apps to first start, gij hanging on exit

[Caolan McNamara]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 04:15 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Iirc there were some reports that OO.org apps would not start. On an
> updated box I tried running Writer. It did nothing. Output of ps ax
> shows that it hangs on:
> 
> /usr/bin/gij -classpath /usr/lib/openoffice.org/program JREProperties
> 
> If I kill that process then Writer suddenly appears. Hope this helps.

I was unaware of this (because this only occurs on first time detection
of java) but copying the JREProperties.class to a FC-6 machine and
running gij JREProperties exits normally, while on rawhide it hangs. So
logged as rhbz#226959 against libgcj.

C.