Issue 101765 - OOo crashes when clicking extension Manager button
Summary: OOo crashes when clicking extension Manager button
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 100878
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOO310m11
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P2 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: thorsten.martens
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Keywords: needhelp, needmoreinfo, oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-05-11 12:46 UTC by wope
Modified: 2009-06-19 21:59 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Developer Difficulty: ---

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Description wope 2009-05-11 12:46:23 UTC 
Om a clean Kubuntu 9.04, remove OOo from the distribution and install OOO310m11.
If you call the Extension Manager, OOo crashes. You must also delete the
userdirectory .openoffice.org/3
Comment 1 wope 2009-05-11 12:52:59 UTC 
the .db files seems to be corrupted
Comment 2 rene 2009-05-11 12:57:24 UTC 
what wope of course didn't mention although that was discussed in IRC:

This is an other occurence of the "OOo uses ancient libdb4.2 and thus
fails on user profiles having .db files created by newer dbs" problem.
Comment 3 Mechtilde 2009-05-11 13:17:24 UTC 
I can confirm it.

It only happens if you have first installed a distribution version and then
installed the vanilla Version.

Out of this there are many problems.

The workaround is to delete or move the user directory and work with a new clean
one.

BUT ...

If you work a longer time with OpenOofice.org from the distri, you have several
or too much personal entries which you didn't want to loose.

If we should discuss it on a mailing list please point me to the right one.
Comment 4 oiaohm 2009-05-12 00:54:08 UTC 
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=101737  I suspect is the same
problem.

Does not have to be a defective DB.  Description was missing off one of the
extensions I installed shared so removing user directory was no help.

When I created the description for package it worked fine.   This is detectable
by running unipkg directly in a console it points out the problem in console
with cannot find file name and crashes.

Some how unipkg crashing by any means brings OpenOffice down.   unipkg lacks
graceful handing of damaged packages of any form the database or missing files.
 OpenOffice is lacking graceful handing of a crashing unipkg.
Comment 5 ace_dent 2009-05-20 23:07:02 UTC 
Possible duplicate of Issue 100878 (or common cause). Please check.

Regards
Andrew
Comment 6 Mechtilde 2009-06-09 20:50:51 UTC 
@ wope

please check if it is a duplicate of 100878
Comment 7 mowgli 2009-06-19 15:37:22 UTC 
In OO310m11 Build 9399 Linux I had this same problem.
Following the advice @oiahom above:

$ /opt/openoffice.org3/program
$ ./unopkg.bin list

This told me one of the extensions I had installed was missing a
description.text file. Like this:

ERROR: Could not read file
file:///home/mowgli/.openoffice.org/3/user/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/XlHGdS_/DeltaXML-OdtCompare-1_1_1.oxt/description.txt

so, I created my own file at that location with a few lines of descriptive text
and everything worked fine.
Comment 8 mowgli 2009-06-19 15:38:51 UTC 
$ /opt/openoffice.org3/program
above should be 
$cd /opt/openoffice.org3/program
Comment 9 wope 2009-06-19 20:32:12 UTC 
duplicate

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 100878 ***
Comment 10 wope 2009-06-19 20:32:52 UTC 
closed
Comment 11 Olaf Felka 2009-06-19 21:59:20 UTC 
The description points out that this has nothing to do with issue 100878. Issue
100878 is related to Win2000 only.