[openoffice]no suitable windowing system found, exiting.

[Eric Anderson]

Francois Tigeot wrote:

>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...
>  
>


I'm seeing this too, and flash stopped working for me also.  Flash7 in 
firefox gives me this error:

LoadPlugin: failed to initialize shared library 
/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so 
[/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so: Undefined symbol 
"ah_arctan"]


Is that error related I wonder?  I believe it also is a dlsym user..


Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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