On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 23:45:16 +0000 (UTC)
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Dale <rdalek1967 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> 
> > Usually if something runs as root but not a user, it's a permissions
> > issue.  You running something special on your system?  Hardened or
> > something more "secure"?
> 
> 
> Nope,
> 
> It's been a normal (stable) gentoo workstation
> with OO for a couple of years.  KDE4 and X
> started this spiral downward, methinks.....

Prehaps you can run it via strace to see which ops (on which files) give
it permission errors just before crash?

  emerge -1 dev-util/strace && strace -f ooffice 2>strace.log
  grep -2 -e EACCES -e EPERM strace.log
  tail -500 strace.log | less (to see what happened last)

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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net