AgelessStranger Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Hi Today when I tried to open openOffice the openoffice splash screen comes up, then the blue line races across the bottom, then I am getting this error message box that says the following: OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to an error in accessing the OpenOffice.org configuration data. Please contact your system administrator The following internal error has occurred: GetStorage, name: "No Content!" [OK] It has been running fine up until now. I did a search on this website but came up with nothing. Thanks in advance Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 try the following: go to your home folder, activate viewing hidden folders and files, erase the /home/.openoffice folder and restart. does it work now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgelessStranger Posted October 6, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 Cheers arctic, once again you have come to my rescue! Care to explain why this error was happening? Thanks again Josh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 (edited) Care to explain why this error was happening? uh... now you are asking the impossible. i am not a coder. but i will try to explain what came into my mind: as we all know, linux does have bugs, just like any other os. the result is sometimes that some crucial data of programs does not get properly transmitted from the /root to the /home directory or partition. these quirks are very small most of the time but if happening at the wrong time, they can cause conflicts with other config-files. as the clean config files are stored at /root, the chance of an app really dying is quite minimal. the root directory places personal config files in every user directory. so /home/paul can have a different configuration of e.g. open office than /home/pete, while all configs are based on the /root. if /home/paul gets messed up, you simply remove the borked user-config-files and start the app again. then, /root will automatically create a clean configuration for that app (that is: a new /home/paul/.openoffice folder). i hope this helped you a bit to understand the way linux works. :) Edited October 6, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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