Comment 42 for bug 236676

The only explanation I can think of that removing openoffice.org-gtk openoffice.org-gnome fixes the problem for the user who installed the program would be if some of the files in the users home directory (or /tmp) are not properly owned by the user. Since it appears that it isn't a /tmp issue since Stunts tested that then it is probably something else in the users home directory.

What does the following show you:

find (/home/username) -uid 0

eg: find /home/ccheney -uid 0

Under normal circumstances this should show nothing, if it does show something then it probably needs to have ownership changed back to the user whose home directory it is in. If this shows a file that belongs to gtk/gnome then it may be the reason OpenOffice.org is not properly working.

Chris