Arch Linux

Try removing your ~/.openoffice.org2 directory, I've had several crashes with the new openoffice package until I removed that directory. Somehow there's something wrong in openoffice that crashes the whole application when it reads unrecognized preferences.

that doesn't help (that was the first thing i've done)

Looks like you're running it from KDE, I get the same messages when running with OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=kde. Try running this:

OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome soffice

and then try the things you have to do with impress.

If it crashes again, please describe exact steps to reproduce (it runs "fine" here)

i'm running it from openbox ;)
but that doesn't matter
i tried it with the gnome settings and it made no differece (i just don't see the error message)

steps to get the crash:
1st) start "soffice"
2nd) file -> new -> presentation
3rd) select empty presentation, click 2 times next and than "create"
4th) select the second layout (Titel Slide)
5th) type something as title
6th) open custom animation, select the title and click "add"
7th) select an animation (for example "boomerang")
(may be it crashes while it tries to preview the animation)
8th) press F5 and push enter
-> get a crash ;)

seems to be a realy strange bug (becouse this is a main feature of impress)
so is it possible to use the old version of openoffice?

that there aren't missunderstandings i'm using the 2.2.0 version of openoffice (which has just going to extra before serveral minutes)

Same issue here.
- Openoffice 2.2 from /extra (with german language files)
- 2.6.20-ARCH
- WM: Openbox ;)
- removing ~/.openoffice.org2 doesn't help

@ Daniel Zahn
i've exactly the same configuration ;)

I have reported this upstream http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=76035

on my machine it crashes with all animations in all documents (not only new created ones)
...

http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=de&q=openoffice+impress+crash+2.2&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8 <- thanks the debian project ;)

may be it's possible to deactivate the hardware accerlation by default (don't know whats the exact problem)

sorry wrong url : http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070331.172107.9c4e9297.en.html

hardware acceleration can be disabled by removing --enable-cairo and replacing it with --disable-cairo in the configure options.

also reported here: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/6869

we temporarly --disable-cairo for workaround. 2.2.0-4 package is already in the x86_64 repos.