Re: oowriter won't execute as user

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On 09/07/2010 04:43 PM, Mark Eggers wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:16:44 -0700, JD wrote:
>
>> On 09/07/2010 01:03 PM, Jim wrote:
>>>     On 09/07/2010 02:59 PM, JD wrote:
>>>> On 09/07/2010 11:46 AM, Jim wrote:
>>>>>       FC13/KDE
>>>>>
>>>>> oowriter will not execute as user, but it will execute as Root.
>>>>>
>>>>> $ ls -al oo*
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oobase -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root
>>>>> root 41 Aug 14 11:14 oocalc -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14
>>>>> oodraw -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 35 Aug 14 11:14 ooffice -rwxr-xr-x. 1
>>>>> root root 44 Aug 14 11:14 ooimpress -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14
>>>>> 11:14 oomath -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 41 Aug 14 11:14 ooviewdoc
>>>>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 43 Aug 14 11:14 oowriter
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> oowriter works just fine here as regular user.
>>>>
>>>> Are you sure you are executing /usr/bin/oowriter and not some oowriter
>>>> in a different dir, which is also in your PATH?
>>>>
>>>> type the command:
>>>>
>>>> which oowriter
>>>>
>>>> to be sure.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I executed it as /usr/bin/oowriter in console and it tries to start ,
>>> and it does not give any error messages.
>> So, the openoffice banner does not pop up?
>>
>> I suggest you do the following:
>>
>> 1. rpm -qa | grep openoffice.org | sed 's/\-[0-9].*$//'>  /tmp/oo.pkgs
>> 2. cat /tmp/oo.pkgs | xargs sudo rpm -e --nodeps 3. cat /tmp/oo.pkgs |
>> xargs sudo yum -y install
>>
>> after that, retry oowriter.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> JD
> How about:
> 0. su -
> 1. yum shell
> 2. resinstall openoffice.org*
> 3. ts list
> 4. run
> 5. quit
>
> Step 1 puts you in the yum shell (run as root)
> Step 2 sets up a reinstall of all packages beginning with openoffice.org
> Step 3 shows you what is about to happen with the transaction
> Step 4 actually runs the transaction
> Step 5 quits
>
> This keeps everything in yum.
>
> . . . . just my two cents.
>
> /mde/
Hey... you do spend more time with yum than I do :) :)

But it is a very good heads-up. I will certainly use it if
the need arises.

Thanx for the info.
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