OpenOffice 1.0.1 (downloaded tarball), RedHat 7.3 Intel workstation install,
nothing special modified.

I successfully did a network install as root, then successfully did workstation
installs as both root and a regular user. root is able to run soffice
successfully; the normal user is not. When the normal user runs soffice the logo
appears, disk grinds for a while, logo disappears, border of a window is drawn
but never filled in, then the window disappears and the message "Aborted" is
printed on the terminal window.

There are a few twists to this story: The regular user is initially able to run
the swriter program successfully immediately after the workstation install;
however, after he logs out of X and logs in again he is no longer able to run
swriter; it fails with the "Aborted" message just like soffice. The regular user
is never able to run the soffice program successfully.

I found 2 tips in the newsgroups: 1) Verify all fonts are valid; 2) check for
write permission on all OpenOffice files in the regular user directory. Red Hat
7.3 uses xfs; initially it was complaining about some erroneous font paths, but
I removed them with chkfontpath and now xfs emits no errors. Also I did chmod -R
ug+rw OpenOffice.org1.0.1/* in the regular user directory, which should
guarantee write access to all OpenOffice files (I also did this for the
.sversionrc file).  Neither of these suggestions helped anything.

I still have the problem of the "Aborted" message when running soffice (and
swriter) as the regular user. What is going on? Help!