[openoffice]no suitable windowing system found, exiting.

[Francois Tigeot]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 11:27:54PM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:26:07 +0800
> Huang wen hui <huang at gddsn.org.cn> wrote:
> 
> > hi,
> > I used openoffice 2.0R from
> > ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/. On recent
> > CURRENT,
> > got this problem:
> > 
> > no suitable windowing system found, exiting.
> > 
> > I try to back out kan's ELF symbol versioning and solve this problem.
> > Does recompile openoffice can solve
> > this problem? I ask becasue compile openoffice is too long.
> 
> I discovered the OpenOffice breakage too, only with 1.1.4. Backing out
> symbol versioning patch helps.
> 
> I will look for an exact cause of failure when I have some free time.
> OpenOffice is a big dlsym() user and it is possible it has to be made
> aware that rtld pays attention to symbol versions now.

Fwiw, this is the same message given by a FreeBSD/i386 OpenOffice binary on
a 6.0-RELEASE amd64 machine.

I intented to find out more but real life got in the way...

-- 
Francois Tigeot