** Changed in: openoffice.org (Debian)
Status: New => Fix Released
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252570
Title:
Problem viewing attachments in Openoffice: soffice wrapper calls
oosplash.bin
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Binary package hint: openoffice.org-common
As Tanguy Ortolo <[email protected]> writes at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471167:
> All the OpenOffice.org end-user programs (openoffice, soffice,
> oowriter...) call /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin, or
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin if it exists and is executable.
>
> The latter, oosplash.bin, detaches itself from the calling process, that
> ends silently, while OpenOffice.org continues to run as a child of init.
>
> This can be a problem when opening attachements from an email reader.
> Some mail readers will save the attachement to a temporary file and spawn
> OpenOffice.org to open it. As OpenOffice.org returns almost immediatly,
> the reader can think it has been closed, and delete the temporary file.
> Then, when OpenOffice.org has ended to start, it cannot find the file it
> has been asked to open.
The wrapper causing this is /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice from
the package openoffice.org-common.
kenny@min ~ 16:13 % lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1
Release: 8.04
kenny@min ~ 16:13 % apt-cache policy openoffice.org-common
openoffice.org-common:
Installed: 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
This problem wasn't present in Feisty.
An uneducated guess for a possible solution: Add an option, say
-nooosplash, that would prevent this behaviour, and add this option to
all relevant lines in the files /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org*
(-> /etc/mailcap) in the following packages:
openoffice.org-base: /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-base
openoffice.org-calc: /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-calc
openoffice.org-draw: /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-draw
openoffice.org-filter-binfilter:
/usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-filter-binfilter
openoffice.org-impress: /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-impress
openoffice.org-math: /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-math
openoffice.org-writer: /usr/lib/mime/packages/openoffice.org-writer
Alternatively, just removing the lines
# test for availability of the fast external splash
if [ "$sd_binary" = "soffice.bin" -a -x "$sd_prog/oosplash.bin" ] ; then
sd_binary="oosplash.bin"
fi
from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice solves the problem for me.
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