Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 128290
Office will not start and exits with a segmentation fault on Centos 8
Last modified: 2020-02-17 00:37:33 UTC
starting with a fresh Centos 8 install and ensuring there is no Libre or OpenOffice installed 4.1.7 using DNF (new YUM) package manager. Installed RPM's and freedesktop RPM. Office installed without error. Office would not start using program launcher. used Bash and started ./soffice from /opt/openoffice4/program dir. exited with a segmentation fault. Found this on user mailing list: https://www.mail-archive.com/users@openoffice.apache.org/msg16363.html which had link to Bugzilla issue: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124948 followed instructions from Ariel's comment and entered command: $ ldd -v /opt/openoffice4/program/libvclplug_gtk.so and found I was also missing libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 but when I entered: $ dnf whatprovides */libgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0.so.0 I received not found. The library needed was only in the Centos PowerTools repo which was not enabled on my system. After enabling it with: $ sudo dnf config-manager --set-enabled PowerTools I found it was in gdk-pixbuf2-xlib installed with: $ sudo dnf install gdk-pixbuf2-xlib And now the office starts I do get this: Gtk-Message: 19:00:56.058: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" but it does start.
My comment will not help but I have not any problem to use 4.1.7 with Debian 10.2 x64. I use unofficial SF repo: https://sourceforge.net/projects/apacheoo-deb/files/debian/
You'll likely find this other issue useful: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=128242 See it for solution and if you happen to have clearer steps for the last comment please post THERE with more information.
Closing as Carl managed to run 4.1.7 and explained all steps in https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=128242 in detail (thanks!). *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 128242 ***