Abhijeet Maharana

I am running Ubuntu 7.04 - Feisty Fawn. Applications from OpenOffice.org 2.2 crashed on my face with the error message:

The application cannot be started.
An internal error occurred.

On running it from a terminal, it became evident that the problem was with user settings

$ oowriter
[Java framework] Error in function createUserSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).javaldx failed!
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
[Java framework] Error in function createUserSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).GTK Accessibility Module shutdown
 
** (process:9274): WARNING **: Unknown error forking main binary / abnormal early exit ...

A search for “Error in function createUserSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).javaldx failed!” led me to this thread where the answer was in the 6th post:

Become root, delete “/home/<username>/.openoffice.org2″ and then start OpenOffice. The folder is recreated and all works well.