On 28 Jan 2002 02:08:46 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote:
>I've been getting this problem when I reinstalled StarOffice 5.2 and/or >OpenOffice build 641 on my home PC (Athlon, kernel 2.4.17-xfs, Debian Potato >r5). Since last Friday, whenever I reboot the machine, the SO/OO install just >gets wrecked when I try to run StarOffice or OpenOffice by the next session. >Here's the error message in OpenOffice: > > The application cannot be started. > The configuration service is not available. > Do you want to start the setup application to repair your installation? > [yes][no] > >In StarOffice it was kinda more descriptive (it reads the initialization script >file instead of the normal, like OpenOffice...) > > In the StarOffice 5.2 installation, the following file could not be found! > > /home/himiko/office52/user/sofficerc > > StarOffice 5.2 requires this file to be executed correctly. With the aid > of the setup program it may be restored. > > Click 'Repair' to let the setup program repair your 'StarOffice 5.2' > installation. Click 'Cancel' to terminate the installation now. > [Repair][Cancel] > >I believe this can be a mitigating factor: Power was tripped Friday at our >place. When it did came back, my /home (XFS) developed a file hole in >.gnome-errors, which skyrocketed my harddisk consumption to 99% from 67%. >Deleted the file using the XFS tools, but df didn't report filesize normally >until I rebooted. Then this problem started appearing. > >I checked in StarOffice. the sofficerc file is still there. There should be no >reason for this message to appear then. I tried the "repair" option, but >unfortunately it doesn't repair anything at all. > >Did the same in OpenOffice (the repair thing). It doesn't repair. > >Running again the setup program as a normal user results in a segmentation fault >in OpenOffice. Running the setup program again as a normal user in StarOffice >5.2 can repair the installation, but the line "Initializing the StarOffice >components for the first time after installation" still appears even after >opening and closing StarOffice repeatedly. > >Invoking OpenOffice from an Xterm mentions: > > OpenOffice.org641/soffice: //HACK: No such file or directory. > >Even when I "touched" HACK in / and make it have perms 777 it still doesn't >repair. The tool fired up but it quitted immediately w/o notification. I believe >it also segfaulted. > >Saw nothing in the logs as to what happened which caused this. tried importing >user info from StarOffice to OpenOffice and vice versa, but it doesn't fix. > >I tried reinstalling StarOffice and OpenOffice already repeatedly since last >Friday night, but it still doesn't work. Tried the network (-net or /net) >install too (installed it in /usr/share, /usr is also a separate XFS partition), >but it still doesn't work, as a reboot is all it takes to wreck my install, as >well as the local install but this thing still happens. > >The problem manifested itself starting last Friday. I already had back then a >working install of StarOffice 5.2 which I don't have too much of complaints... >Removing the local setup files and the user52.rdb and .sversionrc then reinstall >doesn't work also. > >Tried the arduous process of fsck and XFS repairs. No avail. Even mkfs then >copy back again all the data for /home doesn't solve the problem. > >Any idea how to solve this? I'm still working on what the hell really happened, and >any suggestion would be extremely welcome on how will I isolate the problem's source. >This doesn't happen with the other programs - only with >StarOffice and OpenOffice, so it's kinda weird what has really happened. I've >been able to run them without any problems back then. Found the root of the problem! It's with the /usr partition (which is formatted XFS). It's somehow strange that the xfs_repair utility doesn't screech out a warning or an error when it checked the partition. Converted the partition to reiserfs and the problem doesn't appear anymore despite a reboot/poweroff when I tested it. Paolo Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
