[SOLVED] OpenOffice 3 Recovery Crash Fix!

After going around and around in the document recovery loop/crash with the newest OpenOffice (3), I have decided to document my steps and post the resolution in hopes that it will help many of our Linux brethren :)

I went through the following:
Completely uninstalled OpenOffice 2 and the installation of OpenOffice 3
I installed OpenOffice 3 (sudo dpkg -i *.deb) from within the DEBS folder
I then installed desktop integration from the desktop-integration folder

I renamed .openoffice.org2 to openoffice.org2.backup

I deleted the Recovery.xcu file

I did: OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome

When I'd start OpenOffice from shell (soffice) and (soffice -writer), it immediately went right into Document Recovery mode and gave this output in Bash:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'

I also had made sure that the .openoffice and .openoffice2 folders were not owned by root

Finally, I found this post:http://www.nabble.com/-Linux--OOo3RC...d19695985.html

I followed the instructions (deleted .openoffice.org folder and renamed .openoffice.org2.backup back to .openoffice.org2)

*note that these folders are hidden by default in your home directory, so once you're there just press control+h to show the hidden files ;)

Works like a charm now.

WHOOHOOO!

Hope this helps some people!
:guitar:

worked great for me

Glad to help!

An alternative, as long as you don't care about any of your settings:

Code:

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rm -rf .openoffice.org
rm -rf .openoffice.org2

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Thanks!

I had to install a copy of OOo 3.1.1 next to an existing 3.1.0 installation (because I suddenly needed the database app) and I ran into this problem when trying to use write, spreadsheet, etc... basically any of the 3.1.0 apps that were already installed.

This fix rectified the situation! Thanks a bunch.

I also noticed that "recover document" infinite loop with Openoffice 3.1. Installing 3.2 as described here fixed it. However, it also changed the open/save dialogs.

None of these methods works, partly perhaps because I'm already on 3.2

As this is marked solved, I'm starting another thread "Open Office 3 Infinite Recovery/Crash loop" so if you're looking for an answer and this thread doesn't fix it, suggest you look for that one.