Never mind my crash report, it appears that my problem was instead this, already documented in /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.gz :
"If you experience OpenOffice.org startup problems (most notably while using Gnome) please 'unset' the SESSION_MANAGER environment variable inside the shell you use to start OpenOffice.org. This can be done by adding the line "unset SESSION_MANAGER" to the beginning of the soffice shell script found in the "[office folder]/program" directory." Although it would be nice for this to be fixed too (currently hacked around it by unsetting SESSION_MANAGER in the /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice script). regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG public key ID: 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544