(gutsy) openoffice won't start

[Harold Bibik]

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 20:24 -0800, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/22/2007 07:23 PM, Harold Bibik wrote:
> > On a fresh install of 7.10 Openoffice refuses to start (splash screen
> > pops up for 2-3 seconds and then disappears)...I've tried a few
> > suggestions, uninstalled, reinstalled etc but no luck...it works fine on
> > an updated partition but not this one
> > 
> > ...anyone have an idea or a similar problem
> 
> Sounds odd. When you reinstalled did you purge OOo as well? Because OOo
> is part of the Ubuntu meta files, safest way would be to do it via
> synaptic (search openoffice.org & select remove completely). That will
> also remove ubuntu-desktop, but that's OK, you can reinstall that when
> you reinstall OOo.
> 
> Alternatively, you can try:
> 
> sudo apt-get remove --purge openoffice.org
> sudo apt-get install openoffice.org ubuntu-desktop

Thank you both NoOp and Shane for your suggestions

I did a fresh install to a new partition and everything worked
fine....changed to the restricted fglrx driver and Openoffice refused to
load as it did before

went back the ati driver and all was working fine....so at least I know
what was causing the problems

thanks again and I hope you have a great holiday