Changing the icon-style (Tools->Options->OOo->View->icon-Style) from "Automatic"
to something different (e.g. "Default") seems to affect LoadComponentFromURL,
when  soffice.bin runs in -nologo mode. In This case LoadComponentFromURL hangs
and my example java-code (see below) produces the following error-message:

CE> Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence 0x34b)!

Here is how to reproduce:

0) The problem occurs on kubuntu and debian-linux, using the official OOo2.0.2
RPMs (converted to debian via alien). I think this problem would also occur on
other linux-systems, but I didn't prove! It doesn't occur on windows!

1) open writer, create a simple textdocument and save it as .ott (template) to
/tmp/mytemplate.ott

2) call "Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View" and change the icon-style from
"Automatic" to "Default"

3) quit OOo and all OOo-Instances (to ensure call "killall soffice.bin" at the
console). This is necessary to ensure that creating a new XComponentContext (via
UnoRuntime.bootstrap()) starts soffice.bin in -nologo mode.

4) run the above java-code (which simply tries a
LoadComponentFromURL("file:///tmp/mytemplate.ott", ...))

Now the program doesn't return, and OOo hangs. After about two seconds, the
already showed error-message gets printed, but OOo still hangs and also doesn't
react on actions like a simple call of "swriter". The only way to get OOo
running again is to kill all soffice.bin-processes.

Here is one of the hanging processes (showed via ps aux):

christo  11751  5.1  3.7 131440 37584 ?      S    09:34   0:03
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -norestore
-nocrashreport -nolockcheck -accept=pipe,name=uno4716928793418704527;urp;

The strange the conditions are, they occur continously in our regular workflow...

Of course the java code works fine under "normal" conditions. Changing the
icon-style back to "Automatic" is a possible workaround. Now running the code,
OOo opens a new document from the template "/tmp/mytemplate.ott", like expected.


Here is the simple example java-code:

import com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue;
import com.sun.star.comp.helper.Bootstrap;
import com.sun.star.comp.helper.BootstrapException;
import com.sun.star.frame.FrameSearchFlag;
import com.sun.star.frame.XComponentLoader;
import com.sun.star.uno.Exception;
import com.sun.star.uno.UnoRuntime;
import com.sun.star.uno.XComponentContext;

public class LoadCompoProblem {

  public static void main(String[] args) throws BootstrapException, Exception {
    XComponentContext ctx = Bootstrap.bootstrap();

    Object desktop =
ctx.getServiceManager().createInstanceWithContext("com.sun.star.frame.Desktop",
ctx);

    XComponentLoader loader = (XComponentLoader)
UnoRuntime.queryInterface(XComponentLoader.class, desktop);

    if (loader != null) {
      loader.loadComponentFromURL("file:///tmp/mytemplate.ott", "_blank",
FrameSearchFlag.CREATE, new PropertyValue[] {});
    }
  }
}