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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:23:03
Message-Id: 200809051622.53947.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root by Grant Edwards
1 On Friday 05 September 2008 16:01:17 Grant Edwards wrote:
2 > After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working
3 > for non-root users. When I run
4 >
5 > strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer
6 >
7 > I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a
8 > child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin,
9 > and oosplash.bin is hung waiting on this call:
10 >
11 > connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE,
12 > path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"},
13 > 110
14 >
15 > If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing
16 > happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket.
17 >
18 > I've checked, and the socket does exist:
19 >
20 > $ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL'
21 > srwx------ 1 grante grante 0 Sep 3 23:03
22 > OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52
23 >
24 > Any ideas on what to do next?
25
26 so far everything looks right. Maybe check /tmp - what fs is it, and what are
27 the mount options you use?
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32 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com