I'm also affected by this behavior of OpenOffice on Edgy64... $ ooffice
** (process:22257): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ... Executing /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin also results in a crash: $ /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin Floating point exception (core dumped) I have attached a problem report to this comment... ** Attachment added: "Problem report for crashed soffice.bin on edgy eft amd64 platform" http://librarian.launchpad.net/4939169/_usr_lib_openoffice_program_soffice.bin.1000.crash -- OpenOffice Crashes on Launch https://launchpad.net/bugs/63676 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs