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OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical => Applications => Topic started by: Adrian on March 24, 2026, 09:09:12 am

Title: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Adrian on March 24, 2026, 09:09:12 am
Hi,

I've got a problem with Apache OpenOffice since the upgrade to ArcaOS 5.1.2
OpenOffice won't start, that means for every module.

The popuplog.os2 says:

------------------------------------------------------------

03-23-2026  20:47:57  SYS2070  PID 0074  TID 0001  Slot 0092
C:\PROGRAMS\APACHEOPENOFFICE\PROGRAM\SOFFICE.BIN
XML22->LIBCN0.2026
182
------------------------------------------------------------

Any idea how to solve this?

Grts,
Adrian
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Dave Yeo on March 24, 2026, 04:43:13 pm
Up-date libc and/or make sure there is not another on LIBPATH or otherwise being loaded.
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: MPJ on March 24, 2026, 08:34:12 pm
You have to downgrade the libxml2 package to version 2.9.10-3 via ANPM.
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Adrian on March 25, 2026, 10:01:57 am
You have to downgrade the libxml2 package to version 2.9.10-3 via ANPM.

Yes, that was the error. Thanks Pete.

Grts,
Adrian
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Adrian on March 25, 2026, 10:35:50 am
Sorry, Dave.

Grts,
Adrian
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Dave Yeo on March 26, 2026, 03:30:02 am
I do have the newer libc here if interested. Though backleveling xml2 for now may be simpler.
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on March 26, 2026, 03:56:47 am
Dave!

I do have the newer libc here if interested. Though backleveling xml2 for now may be simpler.

Which libc is needed?

I have 1:0.1.14 installed here, and since I actually bit the bullet and finally moved to the latest libicu version (68 now vs old 56) OO v4.1.7 no longer works, which I suspected was due to the libicu upgrade...so my next step was to hit 4.1.11, but is that a potential problem?

The 4.1.11 readme shows the following requirements:

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The following packages must be installed (dll only):
libc 0.6.6
gcc 4.9.2
gcc 4.7.3
gcc 4.4.4
ssl
curl
jpeg
xslt
libicu
z
xml2
stdcpp
stdcpp6
mmap
pthread
urpo
uclip
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Dave Yeo on March 26, 2026, 04:05:12 am
Here's the one I built the other day if you want to test. Not sure of the actual version besides it being the latest.
Edit: Is there an ICU legacy package?
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Dariusz Piatkowski on March 27, 2026, 01:59:28 am
Here's the one I built the other day if you want to test. Not sure of the actual version besides it being the latest.
Edit: Is there an ICU legacy package?

There is libicu-legacy.4.2.1-2.oc00.i686, but that's by all accounts a fairly old thing.

Re: the build you provided, deployed it in a running system (so no reboot, but I did the 'repmod -u' thing), OO started up fine, but then died when I sylected the About dialog...I was just poking here and there to see if standard functionality was good.

Here is what I found in POPUPLOG.OS2:

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03-26-2026  20:59:41  SYS2070  PID 01e6  TID 0001  Slot 0131
G:\APPS\GENERAL\OPENOFFICE417\PROGRAM\SOFFICE.BIN
I18NPOOL->ICUUC.__ZN3icu22RuleBasedBreakIterator5resetEv
127

I'll re-try following a reboot as there may always be some other DLL dependancy thing that's playing havoc here.

Thank you, as always!
Title: Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
Post by: Dave Yeo on March 27, 2026, 03:11:15 am
Looks like the wrong version of ICU compared to what was expected. There really should be legacy versions of ICU as it changes so much each release.