Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 139357
openoffice zombies when opening files
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 Epiphany/1.4.4 Description of problem: openoffice writer sometimes zombies when opening a file and will not restart as the same user Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: see above Additional info:
Is it a particular file, or any file ?. If its a particular file if you could attach it to the bug that would be very useful.
No particular file, happens on occasion and the only solution is to reboot
I observe a similar problem: fress FC 3 install + updates, OpenOffice hangs when: - ooffice - Menu File / Open => hangs before displaying any dialog or window
Even after reboot, the problem persists: OpenOffice is unusable ! Emmanuel
Err, I think this is *not* related to OpenOffice. I have a problem with gnome (HAL and gnome-volume-manager don't work). Sorry, but on a fresh FC3 install I assumed Gnome will be working. Emmanuel
here's an strace of the glitch... to reproduce, run oo(whatever), attach strace to the process, click the folder icon in the toolbar and you'll get something like this: socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 39 fcntl64(39, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0 fcntl64(39, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 connect(39, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/tmp/orbit-stig/linc-2a91-0-2dd029fcb75de"}, 44) = 0 write(33, "A", 1) = 1 futex(0x9fa7e4c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1 writev(39, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\214\1\0\0", 12}, {"\220H\347\376\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\353\254"..., 396}], 2) = 408 futex(0x99d1cf4, FUTEX_WAIT, 7, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) futex(0x99d1cd0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 writev(39, [{"GIOP\1\2\1\0\224\1\0\0", 12}, {"\20I\347\376\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\34\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\353\254 "..., 404}], 2) = 416 futex(0x99d1cf4, FUTEX_WAIT, 9, NULL) = 0 futex(0x99d1cd0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0
Created attachment 107527 [details] package versions after FC3 update I managed to resolve the openoffice open dialog (and nautilus wasn't working either) problem by closely scrutinizing my installed rpms looking for stuff that should've been removed or updated or replaced but hadn't been. my HUNCH is/was that libxslt and glib2 (from the FC2 update channel) were not updated because the version shipping with FC3 did not seem to be newer... after forced installation of a few packages from the FC3 dvd, I had to force a full prelink (rm /var/lib/misc/prelink.full /etc/prelink.cache; sh -x /etc/cron.daily/prelink) and then reboot. now gnome works. (i wish the kernel worked with my use-once-then-reboot dvd writer, though...) -- stig
Created attachment 107528 [details] these are the packages that i changed to get gnome working glib2 and libxslt were from the FC2 updates channel and the FC3 didn't replace them...there were no complaints in /root/update.log about these packages, but they were stale.
was there any clear understanding of what caused this problem? I'm having it again. last time, i purged old libraries and did a full prelink and that seemed to change things for the better...gnome worked again. now the old libraries haven't come back and i've done the prelink again but it's no good. firefox hangs (in save file dialogs), openoffice hangs (in open file dialogs), and mouse selections larger than a few dozen characters don't seem to work between applications! so this seems way worse than before. I've re-built and re-installed firefox too and that didn't fix the problem either... so my earlier prelink assumptions don't hold. help!? FC3 has worsened my productivity by leaps and bounds.
Did you apply all FC3 updates (and especially "hal") ?
yes, i have all the latest fc3 updates. in fact, probably the last hal update should be suspect if hal was part of the cause before... but why would it be? it seems that there's a lock on /tmp/orbit-somethingorother... kernel-2.6.10-1.737_FC3 Tue Jan 11 12:41:38 2005 vim-enhanced-6.3.054-0.fc3.1 Thu Jan 13 09:35:18 2005 vim-common-6.3.054-0.fc3.1 Thu Jan 13 09:35:21 2005 vim-minimal-6.3.054-0.fc3.1 Thu Jan 13 09:35:41 2005 NetworkManager-0.3.3-1.cvs20050112.1.fc3 Thu Jan 13 09:46:52 2005 selinux-policy-targeted-sources-1.17.30-2.72 Thu Jan 13 09:46:56 2005 selinux-policy-targeted-1.17.30-2.72 Thu Jan 13 09:47:04 2005 synaptic-0.55.3-1.1.fc3.fr Thu Jan 13 09:47:05 2005 system-config-samba-1.2.26-0.fc3.1 Thu Jan 13 09:47:14 2005 NetworkManager-gnome-0.3.3-1.cvs20050112.1.fc3 Thu Jan 13 09:47:19 2005 dbus-devel-0.22-10 Thu Jan 13 14:13:06 2005 hal-0.4.5-1.FC3 Thu Jan 13 14:13:14 2005 hal-devel-0.4.5-1.FC3 Thu Jan 13 14:13:41 2005 hal-gnome-0.4.5-1.FC3 Thu Jan 13 14:13:42 2005 fortune-mod-1.0-25dune Thu Jan 13 22:43:03 2005 kernel-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 Fri Jan 14 10:36:28 2005 kernel-doc-2.6.10-1.741_FC3 Fri Jan 14 10:39:09 2005 firefox-debuginfo-1.0-2.fc3 Fri Jan 14 18:33:26 2005 firefox-1.0-2.fc3 Fri Jan 14 18:33:59 2005
the wording in my last entry was perhaps vague... why is HAL related to this bug? The problem seems to be that gnome file selection dialogs called via orbit never appear and hang the calling application. -- stig
I wonder if this is the same problem as bug 144607
I think it could be. I had this problem too (clean recent FC3 install with latest updates and everything, no extras) and killing hald fixed it for me.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144607 ***