On Sep 8, 2008, at 10:16 PM, James Gunning wrote:
Dear All,
I'm using a very recent Xquartz (2.2.3) + fink on OSX Leopard,
which I tend to use mainly as a
remote X11 client for various Linux boxes running fedora 8.
Since upgrading to leopard/Xquartz, remote ooffice from a Linux now
hangs.
Other X clients are fine. I can't tell whether this is a ooffice
problem, fink issue, or
Xquartz one.
For example
% strace ooffice
....yadayada....
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x436cc0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x3671830f30},
{SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0
wait4(-1,
Wierdly, ooffice works remotely as root. And hammering the
~/.openoffice.org2.0
directory doesn't help much...
Anybody have a clue what this might be?
Cheers,
James.
PS My home directory mounts via samba, so I set
XAUTHORITY = /tmp/.Xauthority.$USER
to enable remote X clients to run OK, since samba doesn't allow
various locking operations.
/etc/ssh/sshrc on the remote box is hacked to cooperate....
#########################################################
# /etc/sshrc
export XAUTHORITY=/tmp/.Xauthority.$USER
....
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James_Gunning
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I wouldn't try to pin this one on Fink, since your openoffice is being
run remotely, and X11 is from Apple. :-) I can't think of a fink
package that would disrupt your X11 setup; even the xinitrc package
doesn't do anything that dramatic.
I have found some subtleties in remote operation on Leopard, however
(I'm using the X11 2.3.0 from macosforge.org). If X11 isn't running
and I "ssh -Y" to a remote machine and start an X program, then X11
starts on the Mac, but not only will I not get a window from the
remote client, I also won't get anything from X11 apps on my Mac. I
have to be sure to start X11 first before making the ssh connection to
the local box.
I have no problems opening openoffice from a remote machine via this
method.
Alexander K. Hansen
akh AT finkproject DOT org
Fink User Liaison and Documenter
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