After installing OOo 1.1Beta, starting it resulted only in big silence,
after a few seconds all activity ceased and nothing happened any more.
The only thing to get the prompt back was to kill the top OOo process
from another window....!

After tedius debugging, I have found the cause of this.
My debian system does not have /bin/domainname,
here its is called /bin/dnsdomainname .....

After linking /bin/domainname to /bin/dnsdomainname startup is OK.

I have looked at the code surrounding this and I think an error message
explaining the fact /bin/domainname is not found would be in order.
Currently it just exits without any indication why!

sal/osl/unx/socket.c:868

Simply replacing 'execvp ("/bin/domainname", argv)'
with 'execv ("/bin/sh", argv)' and changing argv to
char *argv[] = { "/bin/sh", "-c", "/bin/domainname", NULL };
would get us an appropriate error message.

Or replace the complete code forking and execing '/bin/domainname'
with a call to popen("/bin/domainnane", "r") and pclose(fd)
would achieve the same.