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Adrian

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OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« 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:

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03-23-2026  20:47:57  SYS2070  PID 0074  TID 0001  Slot 0092
C:\PROGRAMS\APACHEOPENOFFICE\PROGRAM\SOFFICE.BIN
XML22->LIBCN0.2026
182
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Any idea how to solve this?

Grts,
Adrian

Dave Yeo

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #1 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.

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2026, 08:34:12 pm »
You have to downgrade the libxml2 package to version 2.9.10-3 via ANPM.

Adrian

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #3 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.

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2026, 10:35:50 am »
Sorry, Dave.

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Dave Yeo

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #5 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.

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #6 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
« Last Edit: March 26, 2026, 03:59:55 am by Dariusz Piatkowski »

Dave Yeo

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #7 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?
« Last Edit: March 26, 2026, 04:24:51 am by Dave Yeo »

Dariusz Piatkowski

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #8 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!
« Last Edit: March 27, 2026, 02:05:22 am by Dariusz Piatkowski »

Dave Yeo

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #9 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.

Dariusz Piatkowski

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #10 on: Today at 03:13:58 pm »
FYI for anyone else that might see this:

...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!

Following a re-boot and attempting to start OO produces the following in POPUPLOG.OS2:

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03-27-2026  18:33:11  SYS3175  PID 0060  TID 0003  Slot 0097
G:\APPS\GENERAL\OPENOFFICE417\PROGRAM\SOFFICE.BIN
c0000005
1ffc1b65
P1=00000001  P2=00000000  P3=XXXXXXXX  P4=XXXXXXXX 
EAX=00000000  EBX=00000000  ECX=0296ffe0  EDX=20030140
ESI=00000000  EDI=00000000 
DS=0053  DSACC=f0f3  DSLIM=ffffffff 
ES=0053  ESACC=f0f3  ESLIM=ffffffff 
FS=150b  FSACC=00f3  FSLIM=00000030
GS=0000  GSACC=****  GSLIM=********
CS:EIP=005b:1ffc1b65  CSACC=f0df  CSLIM=ffffffff
SS:ESP=0053:0296ff94  SSACC=f0f3  SSLIM=ffffffff
EBP=0296ff94  FLG=00010213

DOSCALL1.DLL 0002:00001b65

So to Dave's point, there is more to it.

I'll log a request to see if we could get an updated version of libicu-legacy.4.2.1-2.oc00 issued. Will update this thread with that information.

EDIT
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NEW Issue created => https://github.com/bitwiseworks/rpm-issues/issues/50

EDIT #2
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Interesting response:

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This is a known fact and was solved years ago in later aoo. So use later aoo to have it working. If we do a new icu we will make sure aoo 4.1.11 will still work. But not older ones sorry.

I'll re-post this thread's URL b/c clearly there is a disjoint here between the OO 4.1.11 and the XML2 updates, so I would suspect there might be numerous others that might run into this very same issue.
« Last Edit: Today at 05:01:29 pm by Dariusz Piatkowski »

David Graser

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Re: OpenOffice 4.11.1 won't start.
« Reply #11 on: Today at 05:04:21 pm »
I noticed Apache open office is no longer listed as a selection at bitwise.