Just tested, and I can confirm that apparmor is the problem. After running "sudo service apparmor stop" from a terminal in the normal user account and then switching to the guest account, openoffice writer started successfully.
-- [Karmic] OpenOffice fails to start in guest session, possibly due to apparmor profile. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/484149 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs