Howdy;

I've got a peculiar issue with both OpenOffice and StarOffice (1.0 and 6.0
respectively).  This makes me think that it's an environment issue.

Initially, I thought this was logo related (reference
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=329389&listName=users) but it
turns out I'd been hitting the crack pipe a bit too hard (it's not logo related,
it was a flaw in my methodology).

What appears to be the case is that *Office is trying to start up, and then it
tries to close (presumably with some sort of File, Close).  This is evidenced by
it starting whatever application you want, and then immediately closing it.

This is irrespective of whether it's a new or previous document.

The way to hack around this issue is to be very quick with the key strokes.  On
startup, if you can get in there and enter some data into the application, it
will ask you if you want to Save/Discard/Cancel.  If you say Cancel, then it
continues on happily, and you can open/save/whatever to your heart's content.

I now believe I know why this is occuring; it appears to be a conflict in
xscreensaver.  I'm running:

$ dpkg --list xscreensaver\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  xscreensaver   3.34-3         Automatic screensaver for X
ii  xscreensaver-g 3.34-3         GL(Mesa) screenhacks for xscreensaver
ii  xscreensaver-g 3.34-3         GNOME binaries for xscreensaver

If I kill the daemon, then I can start *Office just fine.

I am going to file a bug on xscreensaver for this as well, and reference this
project issue.  I've got a workaround, so it's hardly major or urgent, just damn
annoying :)

Cheers

Richard