[Solved] ERROR:no suitable windowing system found, exiting

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Bacms
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[Solved] ERROR:no suitable windowing system found, exiting

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I have Fedora Core 6 installed with the open office 2.2. I want to update to the new version of open office and so I had download it and installed it using rpms. But it didn't create the shortcuts in the menu applications and even when I try to run it from command line using openoffice -writer I get the following error:
no suitable windowing system found, exiting.

Can anyone help me to fix this?

Thanks in advance,
Bruno Santos
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Re: ERROR:no suitable windowing system found, exiting.

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It sounds like a (well-known) problem running OOo under SELinux.

Check in your system logs for SELinux messages; see if you find something like this:
SELinux is preventing /opt/openoffice.orgOOG680_m9/program/soffice.bin from loading /opt/openoffice.orgOOG680_m9/program/libvclplug_gen680li.so.1.1 which requires text relocation.
If so, you should be able to "fix" it with something like this (as root):
# chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /opt/OOG680_m9/program/libvclplug_gen680li.so

Alternatively, you can disable SELinux, or relax the "executable memory" protection--neither of which I would recommend.

This problem seems to be fixed in the new Fedora packages, and in the 2.4 release from OO.org (due out in just a few days), so it may be a good time to upgrade your OOo.
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Bacms
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Re: ERROR:no suitable windowing system found, exiting.

Post by Bacms »

The # chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /opt/OOG680_m9/program/libvclplug_gen680li.so command did the trick.
Thank you very much for your help
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Re: [Solved] ERROR:no suitable windowing system found, exiting

Post by kobatakea »

Hi,
The following command worked for me as root..

chcon -t textrel_shlib_t /opt/openoffice.org2.4/program/libvclplug_gen680li.so

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Re: [Solved] ERROR:no suitable windowing system found, exiting

Post by Raoul »

Worked for me as well.
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