It seems that recent versions of OpenOffice.org are incompatible with glibc 2.3.4 as used by Slackware 10.1.

I tried OOo 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.9.77 and 1.9.79. They all can be installed and run as root. Trying to run them as a regular user, however, gives this:

./soffice
*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x41338c94 ***
Aborted

I seems to be a bug in OOo, however in Slack 10.0 OOo 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 used to work. I submitted a bug report for OOo. It's issue 43109 in the OOo issue tracker.

This, unfortunately, means that we can't use OOo on Slack 10.1.

gargamel

Are you certain?

I have glibc 2.3.4 here on Slackware and OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 works fine (-current, upgraded from 10.0).

Interesting, but yes: It's not working here, on 10.1 Release... which should be the same as current, at the moment... Hmmm.

gargamel

well...how did you install it ?
i want to install it this weekend.

egag

Exactly as specified in the OOo docs.

Download, unpack and cd into the created OOo dir.

As root:
./setup -net

As user:
cd /opt/OpenOffice.org-1.1.4/program
./setup

I even got menu entries with correct items in KDE, but only root could run OOo, not a regular user.

gargamel

Hmm... I'm running Slack 10.1, 2.6.10 kernel, and OOo 1.1.4 on my laptop. It was a wipe HDD/install Slack from CD installation, and OOo is working fine.

For the record, I installed it as root using ./install. It didn't do the GUI install, it just copied/extracted the files to /usr/local. Then I logged in as a user, and ran the setup from the OOo directory, and chose workstation install. Works perfectly.

Hi gargamel,

I thought I should write here, because my slackware installation sounds very similar to yours. I have two installations of Slackware, and OpenOffice works under both:

(1) 10.0 upgraded to 10.1 according to Pat's recommendations. OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 (german) was installed under 10.0 but worked without problems after upgrade.

(2) 10.1 installed directly from the cds. OpenOffice 1.1.4 (german) installed after system setup works like a charm, no problem.

So maybe it is not a general problem with the glibc-2.3.4-i486-1.tgz provided on the Slackware cd. Both my installations have only this version. When I start OpenOffice in CLI there is no error message. I hope this helps in finding the cause of the error you encounterd.

Regards,

titopoquito

Thanks, everyone.

I have come across a few reports of people with the same problem that I have, and it appears not to be Slackware specific --- it's also present on some Debian and Red Hat systems, it seems.
On the other hand it works for you...

Maybe, it's not a glibc problem, at all, then. Perhaps I should take the following error message much more seriously, which I get at the time I start the setup script as a regular user for workstation install.

cd /opt/<OOo>/program (as user)
./setup

And here I get this:

libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering

Any ideas, what this means?

Thanks again!

gargamel

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http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/lin...01.3/1752.html

Thank you so much, keefaz!

I checked my udev permissions file, and found that there is a group video defined in Slackware.

I added my user to group video and copied the following few lines from a SuSE system to my xorg.conf:

Section "DRI"
Group "video"
Mode 0660
EndSection

And now it works just fine!
Weird!

Thanks a lot, you all, but of course especially to you, keefaz.

gargamel

That sure sounds promising, Ill try it on my gf's comp the next time I get around.. This problem has been driving her nuts.. The thing I dont get, is why does it error with glibc? Sounds pretty much like a windows error.. d:

The error message is totally misleading. Without the kind help of the helpful Slackware community and the Slackware maintainer, Patrick Volkerding, I would never have been able to track it down and fix it. Good luck!

gargamel