OpenOffice.org 1.1.0rc3 - registration msg keeps popping up on program start

Locura · 08-30-2003, 09:14 PM

Every time I start up OpenOffice, I get the message telling me to register as an OpenOffice.org user. I already am a registered user. I selected the "I am already registered" option, and it still comes up each time. I checked the soffice script that starts OpenOffice, and I see nothing that could be causing it. I don't have an ~/.sofficerc file, could this maybe be causing it?

mooreted · 08-30-2003, 09:52 PM

You could try creating an empty .sofficerc file and see if that helps.

Ted.

Locura · 08-31-2003, 08:18 AM

Tried that. Didn't work. Anyone else had this problem?

sb73542 · 08-31-2003, 09:52 PM

If you don't have any important UI settings, you could try deleting your /home/username/.openoffice directory

Locura · 09-01-2003, 03:25 PM

hmmm, I have neither an ~/.openoffice nor an ~/.soffice directory... WTF?

mooreted · 09-02-2003, 07:56 AM

Look in your /root directory. The OO config files might have been copied there instead of your home directory.

Good Luck,
Ted.

Locura · 09-02-2003, 02:22 PM

No, they're not there, either.

Locura · 09-05-2003, 08:26 PM

Does anyone have a clue as to why I wouldn't have an ~/.openoffice directory?

mooreted · 09-06-2003, 12:08 AM

Sorry, I don't know. Maybe you should try reinstalling it.

Good Luck,
Ted.

sgrocott · 09-24-2003, 06:51 AM

I had the same problem - it went away when I removed .sversionrc from my home directory, then re-ran swriter (I'm using openoffice.org 1.1RC4). I actually deleted all of the open office directories in my home directory (~/Open* ~.open*), but I'm not sure I really had to do that. When I re-ran swriter I had to go through the 'workstation' install procedure again, it recreated .sversionrc and ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0

Steve

Locura · 09-24-2003, 03:03 PM

Well, I am getting the following error upon closing the program, when I run it from the command line. Not sure if this would help.

Code:

Fatal exception: Signal 11
Stack:
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3[0x40bc2e4a]
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3[0x40bc2fd4]
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3[0x40bc309a]
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0x4110cdfd]
/lib/libc.so.6[0x412c9b48]
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libvos3gcc3.so(_ZN3vos27_cpp_OThread_WorkerFunctionEPv+0x14)[0x40b25f66]
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libvos3gcc3.so(_Z23_OThread_WorkerFunctionPv+0x1f)[0x40b25f4b]
/usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/libsal.so.3[0x40bb853d]
/lib/libpthread.so.0[0x41105463]
/lib/libc.so.6(__clone+0x44)[0x4137dd64]

sgrocott, did you add /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 to your path to run it, or did you put a symlink to the soffice binary in a directory that is in your path?

sgrocott · 09-24-2003, 04:00 PM

I have a symlink called /opt/OpenOffice, which I point to the release of the moment, and PATH includes /opt/OpenOffice/program.

Locura · 09-30-2003, 10:02 AM

Well, I tried a workstation installation instead of just installing it to /usr/local/ like I had been doing. I installed it to ~/.OpenOffice.org1.1.0 though, just a personal preference thing, didn't want that directory displaying in an ls. I took your lead sgrocott, and created that symlink in /opt/.

Most importantly, I'm no getting that damned registration message all the time. Thank you all for your suggestions.