Petr: Sorry for the late response. It does seem to be a binary incompatibility as I updated some packages on one of my CentOS 5.3 machines and the problem went away. However, it still exists on my other CentOS 5.3 machines. I will get a backtrace and strace for you as soon as I can. Best Regards, -- Rob Krakora Senior Software Engineer MessageNet Systems 101 East Carmel Dr. Suite 105 Carmel, IN 46032 (317)566-1677 Ext. 206 (317)663-0808 Fax <div class="gmail_quote"> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Petr Mladek <<a href="mailto:pmladek@suse.cz">pmladek@suse.cz</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Monday 10 August 2009, Robert Krakora wrote: > Hello, > > I was able to successfully install Go-Oo on CentOS 5.3. However, when I > type 'soffice' at the command line the splash screen comes up for a few > seconds until the progress bar at the top is at about 40% and then it exits > abruptly. There is not really anything in /var/log/messages that sticks > out. What is up with this? </div>Robert, could you please report it at <a href="https://bugzilla.novell.com" target="_blank">https://bugzilla.novell.com</a> against the product OpenOffice.org, so we could track it there? It might be a binary incompatibility or so. We would need backtrace and the full strace. See <a href="http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo#How_to_get_strace_log" target="_blank">http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:OOo#How_to_get_strace_log</a> for some hints. Best Regards Petr </blockquote></div>