[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

[gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

[Kevin O'Gorman]

BOTTOM LINE (even though it's at the top)
It appears openoffice-bin depends on some things that are not marked
in the ebuild.

My attempt to compile openoffice (not bin) failed due to disk space,
but not until about
8 dependencies had been compiled.  Openoffice-bin had not pulled them in.
I never did complete the compile.  I trimmed distfiles and packages
and in other ways
got up to 12 GB free space and emerged openoffice-bin.  It runs fine now.

This is not proof for various reasons, but I suspect the additional
dependencies did
the trick.  Or maybe it was disk space.  Not much else changed.

++ kevin

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Dirk Heinrichs
> <dirk.heinrichs.ext@nsn.com> wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag 25 September 2008 05:37:14 schrieb ext Kevin O'Gorman:
>>
>>> > openoffice-bin has been compiled with a given set of use flags and on a
>>> > machine that may or may not match what you have. Compiling it yourself is
>>> > always the better idea.
>>>
>>> Not so obviously better when it fails.  Here's the tail of what I get:
>>
>> You do have enough free space in the build directory (~6G)?
>>
>> Bye...
>>
>
> Apparently not.  I just had something else fail, and I'm moving stuff around.
> That's probably a major part of what's plagueing me now.
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
>



-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED: Openoffice dies on startup

[Iain Buchanan]

Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> BOTTOM LINE (even though it's at the top)
> It appears openoffice-bin depends on some things that are not marked
> in the ebuild.

please try and remove (one by one) the extra packages that you installed 
for openoffice source.  (It's only 8, so it shouldn't take too long).

In between each "emerge -C" see if openoffice-bin still works.

If you find it stops working at some point, please file a missing 
dependency bug!

If you unmerge all 8 packages, and openoffice-bin still works, then it 
was probably disk space related.

Thanks,
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities 
without your help.
		-- Miss Manners