Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem

[Mark Knecht]

Excellent!! That seems to work very fine! Thanks very much!

I guess that when new OO release come along you must remember to
change this again?

Anyway, thanks VERY much!

cheers,
Mark

On 2/27/06, Nicolas MASSÉ <nicolas27.masse@×××××××.net> wrote:
> I had the same problem on Mac OS X, I solved it when I commented out the two
> following lines :
>
> SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING="0 ou 1"
> export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
>
> in "program/soffice"
>
> You can see [1] (in french) for more details.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nicolas MASSE
>
> [1] http://forums.macgeneration.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=121426
>
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> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Open Office / NFS write problem
> Date: Monday 27 February 2006 01:51
> From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com>
> To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
>
> On 2/26/06, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I'm running Open Office on my AMD64 machine. In all ways it seems
> > to work fine when using local hard drives. However, if I try to write
> > any file held on my file server then I receive a message that says:
> >
> > Error saving the document Untitled1:
> > General input/output error while accessing /video/Mark/test1
> >
> > The document was started as a new document, hence the 'Untitled1' name
> > and I gave it the name test1 in the 'Save as...' dialog.
> >
> >    I do not have this problem when editing from my 32-bit Gentoo
> > machine. It's only from this AMD64 box.
> >
> >    Is this a problem that's known already? I find this message in a
> > few files through Google but I haven't found a clear description of
> > why it happens or how to fix it.
> >
> >    Could this be due to using the binary version of Open Office? I'd
> > hate to have to build it from scratch!
> >
> >    The NFS drive is mounted at boot time. Here's the command in my fstab
> > file:
> >
> > mark@lightning ~ $ cat /etc/fstab | grep video
> > myth14:/video           /video                  nfs
> > auto,user,rw,_netdev,noatime,hard,tcp,wsize=32768,rsize=8192,nfsvers=3,asyn
> >c 0 0
> > mark@lightning ~ $
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Mark
>
> Later in my searches I found this thread at the Open Office site:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=36634
>
> Indeed the issue at the bottom - different kernels, etc., may apply.
>
> Our NFS Server is a MythTV frontend only machine that has a large
> drive so we exported that drive to the network as extra storage for
> easy backups and sharing. That machine runs an older kernel:
>
> myth14 ~ # uname -a
> Linux myth14 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 #2 Tue Aug 2 16:31:31 PDT 2005 i686
> Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.26GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
> myth14 ~ #
>
> The drive is exported as follows:
>
> myth14 ~ # cat /etc/exports
> # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported.  See exports(5).
> /video
>  192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0(rw,no_root_squash,insecure,async,no_subtree_check)
>  myth14 ~ #
>
> My local AMD64 machine is running a newer non-Gentoo kernel:
>
> mark@lightning ~ $ uname -a
> Linux lightning 2.6.15-rt2 #2 PREEMPT Thu Jan 5 16:13:25 PST 2006
> x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
> mark@lightning ~ $
>
> Both machines run the same version of nfs-utils:
>
> myth14 ~ # emerge -pv nfs-utils
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.6-r6  +tcpd 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> myth14 ~ #
>
> lightning ~ # emerge -pv nfs-utils
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] net-fs/nfs-utils-1.0.6-r6  +tcpd 0 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> lightning ~ #
>
> Thanks in advance for any ideas you can lend,
> Mark
>
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