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From: Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: openoffice only works as root
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:25:06
Message-Id: g9rff3$mjh$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] openoffice only works as root by Grant Edwards
1 On 2008-09-05, Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> 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, path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"}, 110
12 >
13 > If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing
14 > happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket.
15 >
16 > I've checked, and the socket does exist:
17 >
18 > $ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL'
19 > srwx------ 1 grante grante 0 Sep 3 23:03 OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52
20 >
21 > Any ideas on what to do next?
22
23 After re-emerging openoffice and doing a "kill -9" on the hung
24 openoffice processes, it started working again. Dunno what was
25 wrong.
26
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