[arch-general] new xorg & go-openoffice are fighting -> fatal user interface language cannot be determined [SOLVED]

[David C. Rankin]

On Monday 09 November 2009 15:43:16 and regarding:
> Guys,
> 
> I thought I would try go-openoffice to see if there was a difference that I
> could tell from the way I use it. In short, installed go-oo and the
> dependencies. go-oo WILL start for root, but WILL NOT start for normal
>  users. The error dialog received at the same time the splash appears says
> 
> Fatal Error:
> 
> "The application cannot be started.
> The user interface language cannot be determined."
> 
> Launching it from the command line results in the following error:
> 
> 15:26 alchemy:~> soffice
> [Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
> javaldx failed!
> 
> OK, that doesn't jive with the dialog reported error, but I'm sure they are
> related. I have googled it and the only thing I ran across was the
>  suggestion to check /etc/locale.gen to determine if the correct language
>  was uncommented. I believe it is:
> 
> 15:32 alchemy:~> noc /etc/locale.gen
> en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
> en_US ISO-8859-1
> 
> The strange part is the fact it starts for root, but not a regular user
>  (that normally sounds like a permissions problem). Java runtime
>  permissions?? Where?
> 
> Let me know what to check and whether you want me to file it as a bug and
>  I'll be happy to.
> 

I think I know what happened. I installed from the command line su to root and 
I started openoffice for the first time from konsole that was su to root. When 
I tried to start as a user oo crashed. Picking around in ~/.config I found the 
following:

16:59 alchemy:~> cat cnf/oobug-inst.txt
drwxr-xr-x 18 david david  4096 2009-11-09 15:16 .
drwx------ 61 david david  4096 2009-11-09 16:44 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-05 02:25 akonadi
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-04 14:32 autostart
drwxr-xr-x  3 david david  4096 2008-10-07 00:29 compiz
drwxr--r--  2 david david  4096 2009-11-06 21:12 gpicview
drwx------  2 david david  4096 2009-11-09 14:09 gtk-2.0
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-09-30 11:22 gtk-qt-engine
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-06 23:16 kde.org
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-04 09:45 keepassx
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-04 09:35 lxde
drwx------  3 david david  4096 2009-11-04 09:33 lxpanel
drwx------  2 david david  4096 2009-11-07 17:08 openbox
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  root   4096 2009-11-09 15:16 .openoffice.org
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-04 09:33 pcmanfm
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-04 09:35 qtcurve
drwxr-xr-x  2 david david  4096 2009-11-06 21:11 SpeedCrunch
drwxr-xr-x 10 david david  4096 2009-11-05 16:50 tea
-rw-r--r--  1 david david 27665 2009-11-09 15:57 Trolltech.conf
-rw-------  1 david david    24 2009-11-05 00:42 user-dirs.dirs

Ah hah! sudo chown -R david:david ./config/.openoffice.org and all is well. 
For some reason starting as root while su root caused the 
./config/.openoffice.org directory to be created under root UID & GID. Doesn't 
seem like it should have done that. Usually even if using su or kdesu the 
configs still go under /root not the current user. Strange ...

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