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

[Patrick]

On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 09:27 +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
> 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.

FYI: the hang no longer occurs after updating to the new OO.org rpms in
rawhide (version 2.2.0-4.3).

Regards,
Patrick