Bug#283830: openoffice.org-bin: post installation script exits with error

[Peter Spuhler <pspuhler@spuhler.net>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:

> [ argh, please let the bug in the Cc ]
>
> Hi,
>
> Peter Spuhler wrote:
>  
>
> > > > Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=sh: line 1: 12201 Segmentation fault 
> > > > locale charmap)
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > >        
> > > Hmm. Looks your system is borked somewhere else too... Maybe this is the
> > > actual cause?
> > >      
>
> Did you look at that?
>  
I havn't had the time to look into it but i will.

>  
>
> > rene, here's the actual error that i got yesterday and again today when
> > running dist-upgrade. Sorry i didn't include it yesterday. I had hoped
> > the reportbug program would do this.
> >    
>
> How should it do this? Id doesn't know what you want to report...
>
>  
>
> > Setting up openoffice.org-debian-files (1.1.2-5+1) ...
> > Creating symlink /usr/lib/openoffice/share/dict/ooo ->
> > /usr/share/myspell/dicts...
> >
> > Setting up openoffice.org (1.1.2dfsg1-3) ...
> >
> > Setting up openoffice.org-bin (1.1.2dfsg1-3) ...
> > Prelinking OpenOffice.org binaries... /usr/sbin/oooprelink: line 83:
> > 32115 Segmentation fault      /usr/sbin/prelink $DEBUG
> > --ld-library-path=/usr/lib/openoffice/program --conserve-memory
> > --libs-only /usr/lib/openoffice/
> > run-parts:
> > /usr/share/openoffice.org-debian-files/hooks/postinst.d/prelink exited
> > with return code 139
> > dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-bin (--configure):
> > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> >    
>
> This is actually the prelink program segfaulting (as the message says).
> So no bug in OpenOffice.org.
>  
You're correct. I removed the prelink package and openoffice.org 
installed just fine.

> Moreover, you still didn't answer my other question (see above). It
> looks to me that *something* on your system is b0rked but not related to
> OOo...
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
>  
Thanks for your help. BTW what do you think of prelinking 
openoffice.org? Are the benefits in start up time significant?