Have confirmed this bug on Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.3.

It seems to load normally, but once the splash screen is done with, it crashes and opens up the recovery screen.

Once the recovery process is finished, it crashes again and starts the recovery screen again. Repeat ad infinitum.

Running openoffice in gdb produces the following output:

{{{

[New Thread -1375876208 (LWP 12147)]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread -1375876208 (LWP 12147) exited]
[New Thread -1386566768 (LWP 12148)]
[Thread -1386566768 (LWP 12148) exited]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread -1250056512 (LWP 12137)]
0xb2aba753 in ?? () from /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/engines/libnodoka.so
}}}