Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 118239
A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration.
Last modified: 2014-11-22 23:26:54 UTC
Summary: When trying to start any OO component (oowriter, ooimpress, oocalc etc.) a message pops up OpenOffice.org3.3 - Fatal Error The application cannot be started. A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration. This is the only symptom. When trying to launch the application from the Linux command line, no messages of any kind are seen, aside from the popup. System: Fedora 14 x86_64, updated using yum update. RPMs include the version information 1:3.3.0-20.6.fc14 (x86_64) Additional comments: 1. This problem has been widely reported on various news groups, for both Windows and Linux. It appears to be an ongoing problem both in OO3.3, AND in LibreOffice 3.3 and 3.4. See bug 33475 at bugs.freedesktop.org. In fact, when OO3.3 stopped working, I installed LibreOffice 3.4 (stable), and got precisely the same error message. Neither OO no LO works on my account, at present. 2. On Linux, removing, respectively, ~/.openoffice.org or ~/.libreoffice does no good. New directories of the same names get created, and the same error message pops up. 3. This bug happens on an account by account basis. That is, it happens to each user on the system, independently, after one or more uses of OO or LO. An important point here is that once either program is broken, both are broken. If I create a new user account, the first time I try to use OO or LO, the program works. After one or more launches, suddenly both no longer work at all. 4. This is an old and widespread bug. If you google the error message, you see numerous people complaining about this problem for at least a year, with both OpenOffice and LibreOffice. 5. I have not installed any extensions. 6. I see the bug running on GNOME, KDE, and LXDE desktops, same machine, same accounts. 7. I have checked /var/log/secure, /var/log/messages, with no messages recorded at the time OO or LO was launched. So the status is, on my system, I can run neither OO nor LO work at all. Zilch! Perhaps a good approach would be for someone with access to the source code to grep the error message and see which part of the code generates this message.
getting rid of value "enhancement" for field "severity". For enhancement the field "issue type" shall be used.
The same issues with debian: libreoffice 1:3.4.6-2
Can not reproduce. AOO410m1(Build:9750) - Rev. 1557669 2014-01-14_04:11:13 - Rev. 1557927 Debian
A user has reported on the OpenOffice Community Forum that setting a DATA environment variable will cause this error in Windows 7 and Windows XP. After removing the DATA environment variable, AOO starts normally. I have reproduced the error in Windows 8.1. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=73664