retitle 217370 openoffice.org: upgrade from 1.0.1 failure tags 21730 - moreinfo tags 21730 - unreproduceable # not tagged as confirmed - need to verify if this happens every # time
thanks On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 15:46, Sebastian Padó wrote: > I'm sorry, it was not my intention to send the problem report in this > manner. I quitted emacs by accident, and away went the bug report. :( Ah :) > But more to the point: > > * I installed openoffice.org 1.1.0 over 1.0.1 > > * When I tried to start 1.1.0 with "ooffice", the window came up, > but the program exited after giving me the error > message "OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to > an error in accessing the OpenOffice.org configuration data. > Please contact your system administrator. > The following internal error has occurred: > GetStorage, name: "No Content!" > * removing with apt-get remove --purge and reinstalling did not help It sounds like something in your user files in ~/.openoffice will have caused the problem, and those won't be affected by a package purge/reinstall cycle. > > * by chance, I ran the program as root and it worked. > > * what I found while writing the bug report: after one execution as root, > the program works as user, too. that's why I wanted to downgrade the bug > severity and indicate that there's a workaround. Hmm, running as root regererates the registry cache - maybe there was a problem with that cache somehow, although I would have expected other people to report it, too. We need someone to attempt to reproduce this sometime and find out what is causing the crash. Chris
