Re: [api-dev] soffice -headless
I am also trying to run Open Office in headless mode. I am trying to spawn an soffice process from our Java app server to invoke an OpenOffice Basic macro in an invocation very similar to yours. The process either hangs or exits immediately without running the macro. I followed one set of instructions to run the Xvfb test X server on a dummy display value. OpenOffice launches without any windows as expected but will not invoke the marco and seems to hang but may be just sitting idle. If OpenOffice is launched without a macro parameter and backgrounded then invoke again with the macro parameter it works. I'm not sure which Xvfb version I downloaded but I did have to download an updated version of the cairo 2D graphics library used by OpenOffice. The older cairo library was not happy with Xvfb. The Xvfb invocation looks like this (the :9 is the bogus DISPLAY value): Xvfb -pixdepths 24 -co /usr/share/X11/rgb.txt -fp /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc:/usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi:/usr/share/X11/fonts/100dpi :9 I am running OO v2.3.1 because it is supposed to be the first release that can run headless but the last release that does not force a startup licensing screen. BTW - This is all running on a Linux Fedora Core 7 desktop system. Did you make any progress getting this working? Thanks, Ken Craig Johnson-6 wrote: I'm trying to run soffice in a cron job script where it executes in -headless mode... e.g. soffice -headless macro://document/lib.module.macro file:///path/to/document ... but it dies with an error... Error : staroffice,v8.9 does not run without Openwindows If I set a valid DISPLAY var within the shell running the cron job it will work. Why does it need a valid DISPLAY var set if it's running in -headless mode? Is there something I can do in the shell script which runs the soffice command to setup a valid DISPLAY var? I cannot just give it a made up DISPLAY value unless I know that something is running for that DISPLAY. Thanks, Craig - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/soffice--headless-tp19789500p20342417.html Sent from the openoffice - api dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] soffice -headless
Hi, i've a similar scenario with an headless openoffice. The first version of OpenOffice.org which i have sucessfully used in headless mode and without xvfb is 2.4.1. All previous version didn't work for me. I hope this information could help you. Jan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] soffice -headless
I installed OO 2.4.2 and tried it. Initially it had the same behavior as OO 2.3.1 but then I had the thought to run the soffice process with sudo (because I needed to install the package with sudo) and it works! There must be some permissions issue causing me grief. The system running our app is running as root so this will not be a problem. So to summarize: - Installed OO v2.4.2 with sudo (i.e. sudo ./setup) - Invoked soffice first time interactively to do initial setup wizard and licensing acknowledgement - Did subsequent invocations of soffice with sudo (i.e. sudo /path to OO/program/soffice macro Thanks for your quick response Ken Jan Füssel wrote: Hi, i've a similar scenario with an headless openoffice. The first version of OpenOffice.org which i have sucessfully used in headless mode and without xvfb is 2.4.1. All previous version didn't work for me. I hope this information could help you. Jan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/soffice--headless-tp19789500p20343222.html Sent from the openoffice - api dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] soffice -headless
Does anyone have an idea of why running this with 'sudo' works but not without? I removed OO v2.4.2 and reinstalled it my user directory without sudo. I removed my ~/.openoffice* directories after install. I also ensured the directories where file I/O is occurring are owned by my user account and are writeable. Another oddity is trying to pull up the macro security dialog locks up openoffice unless I start soffice with sudo. Any help understanding these user-mode limitations would be greatly appreciated. Ken kengentry5000 wrote: I installed OO 2.4.2 and tried it. Initially it had the same behavior as OO 2.3.1 but then I had the thought to run the soffice process with sudo (because I needed to install the package with sudo) and it works! There must be some permissions issue causing me grief. The system running our app is running as root so this will not be a problem. So to summarize: - Installed OO v2.4.2 with sudo (i.e. sudo ./setup) - Invoked soffice first time interactively to do initial setup wizard and licensing acknowledgement - Did subsequent invocations of soffice with sudo (i.e. sudo /path to OO/program/soffice macro Thanks for your quick response Ken Jan Füssel wrote: Hi, i've a similar scenario with an headless openoffice. The first version of OpenOffice.org which i have sucessfully used in headless mode and without xvfb is 2.4.1. All previous version didn't work for me. I hope this information could help you. Jan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/soffice--headless-tp19789500p20343462.html Sent from the openoffice - api dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [api-dev] soffice -headless
Hi kengentry5000 wrote: Does anyone have an idea of why running this with 'sudo' works but not without? I removed OO v2.4.2 and reinstalled it my user directory without sudo. I removed my ~/.openoffice* directories after install. I also ensured the directories where file I/O is occurring are owned by my user account and are writeable. Another oddity is trying to pull up the macro security dialog locks up openoffice unless I start soffice with sudo. Any help understanding these user-mode limitations would be greatly appreciated. I don't have any experience with running the headless mode, but I frequently install OOo versions as user. I don't know how you're setup looks in detail. I always use 'alien -t' to convert the .rpm or .deb packages to .tgz packages, then I unpack them with a little for loop into a subdirectory. All this I do without ever being root (which was the reason I've done it the first time, later I've simply used it to play with different OOo versions without making a mess in my system setup). Works like a charm for me. Good luck Arthur - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[api-dev] soffice -headless
I'm trying to run soffice in a cron job script where it executes in -headless mode... e.g. soffice -headless macro://document/lib.module.macro file:///path/to/document ... but it dies with an error... Error : staroffice,v8.9 does not run without Openwindows If I set a valid DISPLAY var within the shell running the cron job it will work. Why does it need a valid DISPLAY var set if it's running in -headless mode? Is there something I can do in the shell script which runs the soffice command to setup a valid DISPLAY var? I cannot just give it a made up DISPLAY value unless I know that something is running for that DISPLAY. Thanks, Craig - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
