Bug 108257

Summary: oo and loocking over nfs
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: ae
Component: openoffice.orgAssignee: Dan Williams <dcbw>
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Description ae 2003-10-28 19:11:07 UTC
Description of problem:

ooffice fails to start for user whose home dir comes from solaris
via nfs/nolock. (The nolock practice began as a workaround for a problem
with wordperfect 8 multiuser.)
OK for user whose home comes from ext3 file system.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.1.0-2

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. xterm
2. $ ooffice
3.
    
Actual results:
endless (?) delay, no visible result

Expected results:
ooffice app opens

Additional info:
1.1beta is OK.
Dist is redhat 9 with patches to date, two processor.

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2004-02-10 20:05:08 UTC
This happens because OOo is attempting to lock your ~/.recently-used
file for reading/writing.  When OOo freezes, can you check what
programs have that file open using 'lsof' ?

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2004-02-27 16:45:10 UTC
Please try current OOo 1.1.0, and reopen if problem still occurs