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

[Nicolas MASSÉ]

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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