(Posted on both lists since there's active discussion on both lists concerning this problem.)
Five minutes ago I found the package that breaks Star Office the way that has been described on numerous emails. The package Star Office has problems with is sharefont. When sharefont 0.10-9 is installed, Star Office gives a very informative message stating that "an unrecoverable error has happened" every time I try to create a new document or open an existing one. "apt-get remove sharefont" solved the problem. Since I my knowledge on X fonts can quite accurately described as "none", I wouldnät count on me to find much more information about the problem. I hope someone more competent with this same problem will look at the package and file a bug report with more information than that I could give. Suonpää...
