The problem appears to be twofold:

First, in /usr/local/stow/OpenOffice.org644/program/sopatchlevel.sh
there is a call to "uname -p" which doesn't work on Linux. Instead,
this should probably read "uname -m".

Secondly, at the end of .../program/soffice, the following statement
fails (together with the error message):
+ exec /usr/local/stow/OpenOffice.org644/program/soffice.bin
X IO Error


Changing the call to soffice.bin to
 exec "strace" "-ffFirx" "-eall" "-o/tmp/so-trace" "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"

was unsuccessful, too, in that the crash turned into a hang, and no
real end of execution was to be observed:

+ exec strace -ffFirx -eall -o/tmp/so-trace
/usr/local/stow/OpenOffice.org644/program/soffice.bin
upeek: ptrace(PTRACE_PEEKUSER,6502,48,0): No such process
Process 6503 attached
Process 6504 attached
Process 6505 attached
Process 6505 detached
Process 6502 suspended

And that's it for the last five minutes.


The platform I'm running on is Debian sid on i386, last
updated today.