Openoffice-3.2 not starting -- X-Error

[perryh at pluto.rain.com]

mi at aldan.algebra.com wrote:

> ... If a different (remote) display is specified, OOo
> comes up fine. But the local -- :0 -- is not working... 

Possible workaround, also interesting as a diagnostic:

Try DISPLAY=localhost:0 and/or DISPLAY=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:0
(xxx... = your system's own IP address).

The first should cause X to use AF_INET instead of AF_UNIX (different
transport mechanism) to talk to the local display.  The second should
do the same, but may take a different path through the network stack
(depending on how smart the stack is about optimizing such things).