[gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog
Hi all, I keep having problems with Openoffice when I try to use the open file or save file as.. dialog: - open file: nothing happens (apart from soffice.bin grabbing about 75% of my system's CPU ressources), but I can close the application window; soffice.bin (and soffice) continue to occupy the system ressources and have to be killed manually - save file as: the application completely freezes and cannot be closed using the GUI: I can only kill the process via console I am able to open files by clicking on them in the file navigator (konqueror), though. The peculiar thing is that everything works fine when I am running the program as root (which of course is not what I would like to do). My system is mainly from the stable branch, but the described behaviour is the same no matter if I use Ooo-2.0.4 or OOo-2.1 (I just tested if that would solve the problem). Can anybody point me to the direction where I should look deeper into? I am quite sure that this is not the problem of OpenOffice (and I have not found anyone reporting a similar problem on their lists). TIA, Arend -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog
Hello, On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:19:04PM +0100, Arend von der Lieth wrote: The peculiar thing is that everything works fine when I am running the program as root (which of course is not what I would like to do). My system is mainly from the stable branch, but the described behaviour is the same no matter if I use Ooo-2.0.4 or OOo-2.1 (I just tested if that would solve the problem). This is just a shot, but it helped me few problems. Could you try setting up a new user account and try it there? If it works there, it is because of some problem with your personal settings (not that it would excuse it to behave this way, but may help find some way out of the problem before it's fixed) With regards -- Hello, this is an extension to the famous signature virus, called spymail. Could you please copy me into your signature and send back what you were doing last night between 10pm and 3am? Michal vorner Vaner pgpyACtfdhnsN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog
Hi Michal, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, [snip] This is just a shot, but it helped me few problems. Could you try setting up a new user account and try it there? If it works there, it is because of some problem with your personal settings (not that it would excuse it to behave this way, but may help find some way out of the problem before it's fixed) Thank you very much for the quick answer. Unfortunately, that did not do the job. But your post gave me an idea: one after another I added my user to all the groups that root is in (eventually including group root). Even then it does not work. So, if I my assumption (that it is a permission problem) is correct, it should be some file which is owned by root and can only be accessed by the user root, shouldn't it? BTW: here's the final message from the program after I have killed it (line 254 is always the same. However, the 4digit number following it changes): /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice: line 254: 3837 Killed $sd_prog/$sd_binary $@ Maybe that might give someone an idea. Kindest regards, Arend -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
