How would that make a difference? Isn't that what he means when he said it wouldn't work as SU? - either that or he ran "sudo su" before running the command, so I doubt that that is th problem.
On 28/03/2013, Jay Lozier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/27/2013 10:57 PM, Graham Glass wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I just downloaded libreoffice 4 and installed it on a Mac (Lion) and >> Linux >> (Ubuntu). On the Mac, everything works exactly as I expected, and I can >> easily convert documents to pdfs using the command line tool like this: >> >> /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless >> --convert-to >> pdf sample.ppt >> >> However, on Unbuntu, when I execute the equivalent command, it always >> fails >> quickly and silently with exit code 77 (Permission denied). >> >> /opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf >> sample.ppt >> >> This failure happens regardless of whether I am a regular user or >> superuser. >> I am not running libreoffice via a user interface, and this command is >> being >> executed on an Amazon EC2 headless machine. >> >> Can someone offer any advice, either a method to get more error >> information >> (such as a log file or a verbose flag) so I can figure out what's going >> on? >> I'm sure it's a simple issue, but right now the lack of error reporting >> is >> making it hard to get the issue resolved. >> >> Thanks in advance! >> >> Cheers, >> Graham >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/convert-to-always-fails-silently-on-Ubuntu-tp4046531.html >> Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > Graham, > > Try the command prefixed with sudo. > > -- > Jay Lozier > [email protected] > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
