On Thursday 23 March 2006 14:07, Scott Stoddard wrote:

> I don't know if this has been resolved yet, but I was having a similar
> (read: exactly the same) problem.  Are you using nfs-mounted home
> directories by any chance?
>
> In my case we're using a diskless gentoo system where the home
> directories are all nfs mounts to the server.  The problem had to do
> with nfs file locking.  It can be solved by editing
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice and commenting out these two lines:
>
> SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
> export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
>
> Note that setting it =0 was not enough for me, I had to comment them out.
>
> Everything worked fine after that.

Of course the correct solution is to enable nfs locking.

Paul

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