[gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

[Arend von der Lieth]

Hi all,
I keep having problems with Openoffice when I try to use the "open file"
or "save file as.." dialog:
- "open file": nothing happens (apart from soffice.bin grabbing about 75% of
my system's CPU ressources), but I can close the application window;
soffice.bin (and soffice) continue to occupy the system ressources and have
to be "killed" manually
- "save file as": the application completely freezes and cannot be closed
using the GUI: I can only kill the process via console

I am able to open files by clicking on them in the file navigator
(konqueror), though.

The peculiar thing is that everything works fine when I am running the
program as root (which of course is not what I would like to do).
My system is mainly from the stable branch, but the described behaviour is
the same no matter if I use Ooo-2.0.4 or OOo-2.1 (I just tested if that
would solve the problem).

Can anybody point me to the direction where I should look deeper into? I am
quite sure that this is not the problem of OpenOffice (and I have not found
anyone reporting a similar problem on their lists).

TIA,
Arend
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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

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Hello,

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 01:19:04PM +0100, Arend von der Lieth wrote:
> The peculiar thing is that everything works fine when I am running the
> program as root (which of course is not what I would like to do).
> My system is mainly from the stable branch, but the described behaviour is
> the same no matter if I use Ooo-2.0.4 or OOo-2.1 (I just tested if that
> would solve the problem).

This is just a shot, but it helped me few problems. Could you try
setting up a new user account and try it there? If it works there, it is
because of some problem with your personal settings (not that it would
excuse it to behave this way, but may help find some way out of the
problem before it's fixed)

With regards

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Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice-2: Permission problem with file dialog

[Arend von der Lieth]

Hi Michal,

Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote:
> Hello,
[snip]
> 
> This is just a shot, but it helped me few problems. Could you try
> setting up a new user account and try it there? If it works there, it is
> because of some problem with your personal settings (not that it would
> excuse it to behave this way, but may help find some way out of the
> problem before it's fixed)
Thank you very much for the quick answer. Unfortunately, that did not do the 
job. But your post gave me an idea: one after another I added my user to all 
the groups that root is in (eventually including group "root"). Even then it 
does not work. So, if I my assumption (that it is a permission problem) is 
correct, it should be some file which is owned by root and can only be 
accessed by the user root, shouldn't it?

BTW: here's the "final message" from the program after I have killed it ("line 
254" is always the same. However, the 4digit number following it changes):

 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice: line 254:  3837 
Killed                 "$sd_prog/$sd_binary" "$@"

Maybe that might give someone an idea.
Kindest regards,
Arend
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