Re: Openoffice Writer never finishes.

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On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 08:38:06AM +0200, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> On 9/21/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:19:29AM +0200, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> >> Hello Everybody!
> >>
> >> I have a problem with Openoffice: I have just installed Writer, and
> >> to be sure I removed $HOME/.openoffice2.0.
> >
> >To be sure of what? Did you remove the directory before or after you
> >installed Writer?
> 
> To be sure that any old settings were not the problem. I have used
> Mandriva befofe.

Ah, so you deleted the directory before installing OOo? If you deleted
it after installing, that could be a problem, depending on whether OOo
will rebuild a missing directory.


> >> My home dir is on a NFS share, could this be a problem?
> >
> >Yes, but probably not related to this problem. The potential problem
> >is that some nfs installations do not lock files, or lock them
> >incorrectly. If OOo (or any other app) uses file locks, it could be a
> >problem. Fortunately this problem is rare and getting rarer.
> >
> Is there any way to find out if this is the problem?

Ask the sys admin of the NFS share host whether it handles file locks
correctly. If you are the sysadmin, and it is a recent version of
Linux or *BSD, it most likely does handle file locks correctly.

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