Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 103624
If openoffice is installed under /Users/<user>/Applications/ program ends silently when started
Last modified: 2010-06-04 19:58:53 UTC
I am a regular user in my university without admin privilege (the computers are aluminium 24" iMac with OS X 10.5.7), therefore after unzipping the openoffice .dmg image, I drag the application to: /Users/<user>/Applications/ within my home directory, rather than the usual system-space /Applications/ However when I attempt to start openoffice.org, it just exits silently. This behaviour certainly has a bad effect on openoffice uptake among Mac users. Being able to run from a user-space installation without admin privilege is very important for many users.
@ macport: Can someone have a look please?
I have test it. FIrst I test on my normal User-Account. Here I have no problem. Then I with my OOo Testuser without system privilege: - after the welcome-wizard with first start OOo freeze - I must kill it by context-menu of the app-icon -> [de]Sofort beenden[/de] - with the second start OOo commes without welcom-wizard but with register-wizard (and with the question about the Improvement program), after this, OOo works normal and after a further start OOo works normal. - after that test I delete my config-dir (~/Library/Application Support/OpenOffice.org) and start OOo new - OOo works normal too - after that I delete the configdir and OOo and install OOo again - works normal... I could't reproduce the freeze or kcleung's problem - perhaps i hasn't enough patience with the first start? My System: MacBook Pro 15", 2.4 GHz Intel CPU, 4GB RAM, MAC OS X 10.5.7 @kcleung: you write about your iMac (with PPC-CPU?)... Is that a bug only in PPC-Version?
My computers are aluminium macbook 13" and aluminium iMac 24", both are Intel C2D based. I don't have admin privileges in any of the machines. I drag the OpenOffice.org to ~/Applications/ and when I try to double-click OpenOffice.org under ~/Applications, the OO icon on the bar bounces for 10 seconds, then it disappears and the program ends silently.
I just checked with RC2 on OSX PPC (Tiger (10.4)) Installed it to a users Applications $HOME/Applications who has no admin priviledges ... I could do several documents including creating an ODF database.
not reproducible → worksforme. You can only have one instance of OOo for the same user profile running at the same time. So make sure you don't have another instance of OOo running under your user. Alternatively use the -env:UserInstallation=file:///Users/foobar/nondefault startup parameter to explicitly specify a different user-installation directory Different versions of OOo, that don't use the same user profile directory can be used simultaneously without problem.
closing. Feel free to reopen if you can still reproduce with a current version of OOo (3.2.1 was just released). But please check that no other instances of OOo are running.