libreoffice 3.5.2: crashes upon opening files

[grarpamp]

> When I use the 'recent documents' menu or 'file open' browser
> from within the app itself (localc), it segfaults 11.

Same goes for saving files.
New spreadsheet, put '123' in cell A1, hit save (or ctrl-s), hit ok... CRASH.
Frustrating!

I ask a question... is it related to my post-install mods...

chown -Rh 0:0 /usr/local
find -sEx /usr/local                -perm +7000  -exec chmod -h -s    {} \+
chmod -h ugo-x /usr/local/bin/dbus-launch
chmod -h ugo-x /usr/local/libexec/gam_server
pw userdel ... groupdel ... messagebus polkit haldaemon avahi

Aha!, but 3.4.5 worked fine with them, so maybe I think now
not due to my post-install. But I post the below relations anyway.

# further collected from stdout and stderr
javaPathHelper: not found

failed to find gam_server
Failed to connect to socket /tmp/fam-iso/fam-
(soffice:80050): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: FAMOpen failed, FAMErrno=3

The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning:          Duplicate shape name ""
>                   Using last definition
> Warning:          Multiple doodads named ""
>                   Using first definition
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server

# add these when using browser to save, instead of ctrl-s on
pre-existing opened file
(soffice:80776): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to find default local
directory monitor type
(soffice:80776): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to retrieve the file info for
`file:///.../Untitled%201': Error stating file '/.../Untitled 1': No
such file or directory

Jun  2 14:35:57 foo kernel: pid 80050 (soffice.bin), uid 10001: exited
on signal 11 (core dumped)