On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Rich Shepard wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:02:05 -0700 (PDT) > From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: [PLUG] Application Loads for Root, not for User > > For a reason I do not know, OpenOffice.org will not start this morning, > and I need to finish a document today. I was running OO.o-3.0.0, so I > decided to see if upgrading to the latest version would fix the problem. It > won't. > > I got the -3.1.1 tarball, but my SlackBuild script fails to complete > because it cannot stat a usr/ directory (but doesn't tell me the parent > directory). Anyway, searching for the problem's source I discovered that > /usr/bin/soffice is a link to /opt/openoffice3.org/program/soffice, and the > application loads if I invoke it as root, but not if I try to invoke it as a > user. /usr/bin/soffice has 777 permissions. > > /opt is owned by root.root with 777 permissions. > /opt/openoffice.org and /opt/openoffice.org3 are owned by rshepard.users > with 755 permissions. > > What might have happened? More importantly, how do I fix the system so I > can again invoke OO.o? > > Rich
If all else fails, run it in strace. That should tell you exactly which file it fails to stat. Carlos _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
