Bug 788045

Summary:	soffice --help wouldn't display help when soffice already running
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Tomas Pelka <tpelka>
Component:	libreoffice	Assignee:	Caolan McNamara <caolanm>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
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Version:	6.2	CC:	syeghiay
Target Milestone:	rc
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Fixed In Version:	libreoffice-3.4.5.2-8.el6	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Cause: new faster startup helper not aware of the command line help option Consequence: activating the help feature from the command line when an instance is already executing doesn't work Fix: extend the startup scripts to handle the help feature under all circumstances Result: activating help from the command line works under all circumstances	Story Points:	---
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Description Tomas Pelka 2012-02-07 10:39:52 UTC

Description of problem:
soffice --help wouldn't display help when soffice already running

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libreoffice-*-3.4.5.2-1.el6

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run soffice
2. run soffice --help again when soffice already running 
3.
  
Actual results:
no output

Expected results:
should display help

Additional info:

Comment 1 Caolan McNamara 2012-02-07 12:01:59 UTC

known fix upstream, will backport it

Comment 7 Caolan McNamara 2012-02-29 11:13:19 UTC

bah the *exact* original case of soffice --help should work, but any of the swriter, simpress etc wrappers add another agument to the command line and the original test to show help only works for 1 argument.

Comment 10 Caolan McNamara 2012-05-01 10:01:53 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
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    New Contents:
Cause: new faster startup helper not aware of the command line help option

Consequence: activating the help feature from the command line when an instance is already executing doesn't work

Fix: extend the startup scripts to handle the help feature under all circumstances

Result: activating help from the command line works under all circumstances

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 12:53:08 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2012-0798.html