Public bug reported: 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 16:13 % lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 8.04.1 Release: 8.04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ 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. ** Affects: openoffice.org (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Problem viewing attachments in Openoffice: soffice wrapper calls oosplash.bin https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252570 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
