Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 111198
starting openoffice launches installer every time - not just first time - two errors in ooffice wrapper script
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:34 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Description of problem: 0) When staring openoffice.org (with ooffice from terminal or icons on desktop toolbar or from within nautilus by opening a file) the installer runs each and every time. Oddly enough, if one first deletes the .openoffice OpenOffice... .sversionrc .mime.types .mailcap .recent-files and such it works ok the first time and then screws up the second and greater times. One way I found around this is outlined here: 1) I changed the string "OpenOffice.org1.1.0" to ".openoffice" in my ${HOME}.sversionrc file so that it reads like this: .sversionrc: [Versions] OpenOffice.org 1.1.0=file:///home/april/.openoffice PROBLEM: the office wrapper script expects ${HOME}.sversionrc file to contain the string/directory ".openoffice", but it actually contains the string/directory "OpenOffice.org1.1.0". 2) I changed the /usr/bin/ooffice script such that an extra slash is not included in the OOVERSIONRC and OOHOME variable strings. Output of diff -Naur: --- /usr/bin/ooffice 2003-11-29 12:56:53.000000000 -0500 +++ /usr/bin/ooffice.orig.broken 2003-11-03 17:14:53.000000000 -0500 @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ } OOVERSION=1.1.0 -OOVERSIONRC="${HOME}.sversionrc" -OOHOME="${HOME}.openoffice" +OOVERSIONRC="$HOME/.sversionrc" +OOHOME="$HOME/.openoffice" # grab current language lang="$LC_ALL" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. use an openoffice application (oocalc myjunk.xsc) with no initialization files (i.e. no .openoffice dir or .sversionrc file) 2. try the same again (but in step 1 the initialization/personalization files were created) - and this time the installer/setup runs ARG.... 3. Actual Results: openoffice setup runs Expected Results: openoffice application to launch Additional info:
This happens because the openoffice startup script in FC1 and FC2 misdetects and does not co-exist well when programs like StarOffice7 are listed in ~/.sversionrc. I'm putting this on my TODO list...
hmm, the existence of an OpenOffice.org1.1.0 in your home directory is probably the result of earlier bugs in the setup program. These should be fixed now fi you blow away your ~/.openoffice directory. Red Hat's OOo will always install stuff, when operating correctly, in ~/.openoffice. If not, there's a problem. Closing since this should be fixed.
This is still an ugly issue for StarOffice7 installations, which can too easily cause the openoffice workstation install thing to start rather than the office suite. This is on my personal TODO list to solve.
Warren, what are the exact problems of interop between SO7 and OOo?
This one bit me today. Grrr. rm -rf ~/.openoffice worked for me. This is a FC1 system that has been upgraded over time, starting at 7.3 IIRC.
This is occurring for me. My system was upgraded from Redhat 9 and previouly had the Ximian version of openoffice installed. All ximian rpm's were removed prior to the upgrade. Removing the .openoffice directory did not resolve the issue. Patching the oofice script as mentioned earlier in the bug report resolved the issue.
I tried first installing a stock openoffice.org-1.1.3 and ran it and then afterwards installed and ran the FC3 update 1.1.2-11 rpms and all was well. Does this problem persist in FC2/FC3 or can it be closed now ?
I think this is working fine now with FC2/FC3 updates. If it's still reproducable somehow let me know how and I'll have another look