Hi :) There is not much point in fixing a problem when you don't know what the problem is or where it is if there is one. That's a bit like "pin the tail on the donkey" but without anyone looking to see how close you got. What if, as it turned out, that the file/folder permissions were not the issue? You can chown all you want but now you don't know whether the problem has been solved or not.
One trouble-shooting technique is to try su or sudo and if it had no effect then you can rule out a whole bunch of stuff. As has happened in this case. As Graham says, what would be really nice is to find a log-file or generate one. Almost all commands have a "verbose" tag that does the job. How can we get more info about what is going wrong? Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 18:26 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to always fails silently on Ubuntu > >On 03/28/2013 01:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> It might have made a difference if he didn't have read/write access to the >> folder or something dumb like that. Also it's something quick to try and >> beats just tearing your hair out. >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >sudo chown blah to change ownership of the folder - I have to look the >exact switches, etc. I have seen this issue crop up occasionally were a >folder tree does not have the permissions set to allow something like this. >> >> >> >>> ________________________________ >>> From: Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> >>> To: Kieran Peckett <crazyske...@gmail.com> >>> Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org >>> Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 17:26 >>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to always fails silently on >>> Ubuntu >>> >>> Keieran >>> >>> I missed that last night - good catch >>> >>> On 03/28/2013 12:51 PM, Kieran Peckett wrote: >>>> How would that make a difference? Isn't that what he means when he >>>> said it wouldn't work as SU? - either that or he ran "sudo su" before >>>> running the command, so I doubt that that is th problem. >>>> >>>> On 28/03/2013, Jay Lozier <jsloz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> On 03/27/2013 10:57 PM, Graham Glass wrote: >>>>>> Hi everyone, >>>>>> >>>>>> I just downloaded libreoffice 4 and installed it on a Mac (Lion) and >>>>>> Linux >>>>>> (Ubuntu). On the Mac, everything works exactly as I expected, and I can >>>>>> easily convert documents to pdfs using the command line tool like this: >>>>>> >>>>>> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless >>>>>> --convert-to >>>>>> pdf sample.ppt >>>>>> >>>>>> However, on Unbuntu, when I execute the equivalent command, it always >>>>>> fails >>>>>> quickly and silently with exit code 77 (Permission denied). >>>>>> >>>>>> /opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf >>>>>> sample.ppt >>>>>> >>>>>> This failure happens regardless of whether I am a regular user or >>>>>> superuser. >>>>>> I am not running libreoffice via a user interface, and this command is >>>>>> being >>>>>> executed on an Amazon EC2 headless machine. >>>>>> >>>>>> Can someone offer any advice, either a method to get more error >>>>>> information >>>>>> (such as a log file or a verbose flag) so I can figure out what's going >>>>>> on? >>>>>> I'm sure it's a simple issue, but right now the lack of error reporting >>>>>> is >>>>>> making it hard to get the issue resolved. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks in advance! >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> Graham >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> View this message in context: >>>>>> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/convert-to-always-fails-silently-on-Ubuntu-tp4046531.html >>>>>> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >>>>>> >>>>> Graham, >>>>> >>>>> Try the command prefixed with sudo. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Jay Lozier >>>>> jsloz...@gmail.com >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >>>>> Problems? >>>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>>>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>>>> deleted >>>>> >>>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Jay Lozier >>> jsloz...@gmail.com >>> >>> >>> -- >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >>> Problems? >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>> deleted >>> >>> >>> >>> > > >-- >Jay Lozier >jsloz...@gmail.com > > >-- >For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
