[plug] OpenOffice1.1beta startup problems

[Ryan]

Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

> > The CPU usage on the first process gradually dies down to 0.0 after about 20 minutes.  Nothing appears on the screen.
> 
> That's just weird. Have you tried:
> 	(a) trimming down the FontPath if there are any non-standard fonts in it,
> 	(b(1)) running it with DISPLAY=some_remote_machine,
> 	(b(2)) attaching a debugger in the vain hope you'll be able to figure out 
> what's going on?

Here is the last tiny bit of strace's opinion on the matter:

open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 12
fcntl64(12, F_GETFD)                    = 0
fcntl64(12, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1177, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40de0000
_llseek(12, 0, [0], SEEK_CUR)           = 0
read(12, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1177
close(12)                               = 0
munmap(0x40de0000, 4096)                = 0
getuid32()                              = 1000
access("/home/ryan", F_OK)              = 0
getcwd("/home/ryan", 4095)              = 11
lstat64("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home/ryan", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|S_ISGID|0775, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home/ryan", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
lstat64("/home/ryan/.sversionrc", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=75, ...}) = 0
access("/home/ryan/.sversionrc", F_OK)  = 0
access("/tmp", W_OK)                    = 0
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 12
fcntl64(12, F_GETFD)                    = 0
fcntl64(12, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
stat64("/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_17425451ee4dc67e73e328b31373ff9", {st_mode=S_IFSOCK|0755, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
connect(12, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_17425451ee4dc67e73e328b31373ff9"}, 110) = 0
close(12)                               = 0
access("/tmp", W_OK)                    = 0
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 12
fcntl64(12, F_GETFD)                    = 0
fcntl64(12, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
access("/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_17425451ee4dc67e73e328b31373ff9", F_OK) = 0
connect(12, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_17425451ee4dc67e73e328b31373ff9"}, 110) = 0
send(12, "-show", 5, 0)                 = 5
send(12, "\0", 1, 0)                    = 1
recv(12,

Sits there 'forever'.  Beyond me.

Ryan