Comment 143 for bug 185311

(Woops, missed that the other bug was closed and this one is the tracker of this issue now)

It seems it has something to do with locale settings. With locale set to en_US.UTF-8 it works, with locale setting to nl_NL.UTF-8 (I also tried pl_PL, but also doesn't work)

openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu1
Linux fkooman-laptop 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Wed Jun 18 14:15:37 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux (64 bit as well)

fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ rm -rf .openoffice.org2/
fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ oowriter
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
<<< OpenOffice.org works here!! >>>

fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ LANG="nl_NL.UTF-8"
fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ rm -rf .openoffice.org2/
fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ oowriter
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
fkooman@fkooman-laptop:~$ Locking assertion failure. Backtrace:
#0 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 [0x7fdf01cfb97c]
#1 /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0(xcb_xlib_lock+0x15) [0x7fdf01cfba15]
#2 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 [0x7fdf059c5323]
#3 /usr/lib/libX11.so.6(XCreateWindow+0x44) [0x7fdf059bcd54]
#4 /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0(gdk_window_new+0x395) [0x7fdf018a5c05]
#5 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0x7fdefcf344c8]
#6 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x10f) [0x7fdf00d39bcf]
#7 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0x7fdf00d4d386]
#8 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x875) [0x7fdf00d4f0d5]
#9 /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x83) [0x7fdf00d4f483]
#10 /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_widget_realize+0x77) [0x7fdefcf25957]
#11 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk680lx.so [0x7fdefd2dd76d]
#12 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk680lx.so [0x7fdefd2de16a]
#13 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk680lx.so [0x7fdefd2de82b]
#14 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvclplug_gtk680lx.so [0x7fdefd2b6f64]
#15 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680lx.so [0x7fdf092624ed]
#16 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680lx.so [0x7fdf091f7322]
#17 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680lx.so(_ZN9TabDialogC2EP6WindowRK5ResId+0x5f) [0x7fdf092341cf]
#18 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsvx680lx.so [0x7fdef4180084]
#19 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsvx680lx.so [0x7fdef4354db4]