Hello Mel, So it seems that my problem involves the failure of Open Office to remove the lockfile when it shuts down, leaving a stale lockfile.
I have a little further information on what happened to me today. I tried to open a file using open office gui and failed. I then tried several times to open an open office file using firefox. It then prompted me to click on yes to open the file in open office and then promptly hung. This happened several times, so I tried opening the file in Konqueror. The first time it hung, but the second time I successfully opened the file and printed it out. Does this give you a clue as to why my system frequently leaves stale lockfiles? Blessings, Michael Mel Walters wrote: >On Monday 11 July 2005 12:28 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > > >>Although I at first thought that perhaps the lock file was created when >>I perhaps right clicked when I should have left clicked, when I was >>careful to only click the right way, I still got lock files. >> >>About every other time I create a new open office spread sheet I get a >>lock file. >> >>I just remove the lockfile and open office works again, but does anyone >>know of possible reasons lockfiles might be created when I work with >>open office documents? If someone could tell me what to look for in >>causes of lockfiles, I might be able to fix the problem by prevention >>rather than by corrections. >> >>Regards, >> >>Michael >> >> >>Michael Walters wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hello All, >>> >>>When I open new documents in open office I sometimes get another >>>lockfile. But removing the lockfile seems to free up open office again. >>> >>>It is a bit anoying to remove lockfiles, but at least I can edit new >>>open office documents. >>> >>> >>> >[SNIP] > > >>>>The reason that is partial success is we do not know what created the >>>>lockfile in the first place. >>>> >>>> > >Did I answer this already? I do not see my answer? >Again: > >The royal WE here? I can see by your letter you do not understand what a lock >file is or how it is suppose to work. >Programs create lock files to keep track of things. That is normal. when a >program closes down, it would normally delete the lock file (and all is >well). >If a program hangs up (freezes) or crashes, then the lock file (stale one) >will still be there and we do not want it. This can prevent you from starting >the program, as the OS thinks you are already running it. > >What has to be determined is, what is failing here? >1/ Open Office could be going bye bye (hence a stale lock file to trip you up) >or, >2/ You could be trying to run ooffice twice, and the OS is complaining > ( this could easily go on by focus not being on ooffice but other things on >your desktop covering it up) > >I am not saying I know what happened to you. But you may be a little lost as >to the details too, since your first assumption you make could be false or >true? > >You can figure out what is going on. Only then do you have a hope of solving >your problem here. > >Hope this helps you Michael > >Mel Walters > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
