Office crashes very early on startup (even before splash screen) if 
configmgr::BasicGroupAccess::getByName() (called by
LanguageSelection::getUserLanguage) throws an exception. There is no catch
handler in the stack below. Thus Office execution aborts. I ran into this
situation having broken (actually old and incompatible) user data in ~./StarOffice8

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
[Switching to Thread 1102325856 (LWP 19068)]
0xffffe410 in ?? ()
(gdb) where
#0  0xffffe410 in ?? ()
#1  0xbfffcfd0 in ?? ()
#2  0x00000006 in ?? ()
#3  0x00004a7c in ?? ()
#4  0x413ea7a1 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#5  0x413ebf79 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#6  0x4136bad1 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler () at
../../.././libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/vterminate.cc:96
#7  0x41369505 in __cxxabiv1::__terminate (handler=0x4136b9d0
<__gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler()>) at
../../.././libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:43
#8  0x41369542 in std::terminate () at
../../.././libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_terminate.cc:53
#9  0x413696d2 in __cxa_throw (obj=0x816eff0, tinfo=0x0, dest=0) at
../../.././libstdc++-v3/libsupc++/eh_throw.cc:80
#10 0x42a65682 in configmgr::configapi::implGetByName (rNode=@0x42c07f54,
sName=@0xbfffd2c4) at /local/kso/src/SRC680/configmgr/source/api2/accessimpl.cxx:719
#11 0x42a8eb87 in configmgr::BasicGroupAccess::getByName (this=0x42c07f18,
sName=@0xbfffd2c4) at
/local/kso/src/SRC680/configmgr/source/api2/groupaccess.cxx:134
#12 0x0807ff3a in desktop::LanguageSelection::getUserLanguage ()
#13 0x080805d4 in desktop::LanguageSelection::getLanguageString ()
#14 0x0808070e in desktop::LanguageSelection::prepareLanguage ()
#15 0x0806239c in desktop::Desktop::Init ()
#16 0x400dc75e in InitVCL () from
/local/kso/so8.m52.unxlngi6.pro/program/libvcl680li.so
#17 0x400dcdd4 in SVMain () from
/local/kso/so8.m52.unxlngi6.pro/program/libvcl680li.so
#18 0x4025f47c in main () from
/local/kso/so8.m52.unxlngi6.pro/program/libvcl680li.so
#19 0x413d8500 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
#20 0x080615e1 in _start ()
(gdb)