Description of problem: Whenever I attempt to write a file to an NFS share from inside Open Office, it hangs and I have to force-quit the application. I can save the file locally and copy it to the NFS share using the file browser. The directories on the NFS share are all world-writeable and have world execute permission. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch Open Office, create or open a file 2. Click 'Save As' and choose a mounted NFS share 3. Actual results: Open Office becomes unresponsive. Expected results: It should save the file and be happy. Additional info: This happens on my 32-bit Fedora 10 system (OO V3.0.1) and on my 64-bit Fedora 11 system (OO 3.1.0). On Fedora 11 it also hangs if I attempt to open a file that is on an NFS share.
I see the problem in openoffice.org-core-3.1.0-11.2 , but only with my own NFS share, so it could be a misconfiguration issue. In any case, it goes away when I unset SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING (in /usr/lib64/openoffice.org3/program/soffice).
So it's a problem with NFS locking--it always gets stuck in fcntl(F_SETLK, ...). How to reproduce: 1. add a rw share to /etc/exports on a NFS server 2. start nfs 3. go to client, mount the share (without specifying any options) 4. compile the attached test program 5. run the test program
Created attachment 343575 [details] rpcinfo on client
Created attachment 343576 [details] rpcinfo on server
Created attachment 343577 [details] a standalone test case
Created attachment 343578 [details] tcpdump of traffic on client's eth0 when running the test case
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Looking at the trace from Comment #6, I would guess the hang is coming from the: ICMP host verda-stelo.englab.brq.redhat.com unreachable - admin prohibited
Just to say that I get a very similar problem with Fedora 12 (being released next week) as an NFS client of a Fedora 11 box (fully up to date). The F12 box is 32 bit; the NFS server is 64 bit F11. However, I get a message from OOo: openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.14.fc12.i686 which says: Document file /mnt/machine/blah.odt is locked for editing by: UNknown User. When I comment out the lines: SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING in /usr/lib/openoffice.org3/program/soffice it works (dangerously) around the problem. So, this should probably be marked as *F12* or Rawhide or both now.
Just to confirm that this also manifests itself with a 64 bit FC11 box with an NFS mount from another 64 bit FC11 box. Looks like FC10,11,12 and rawhide.
Hmm... just to be clear, when you turn off file locking everything the hang goes away??
I don't get the hang symptoms, I get an error message about the file being locked for editing by an unknown user - see comment #9 above. If you think this is a separate bug, I could raise it in a fresh bugzilla report, but the fact that bodging SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING works around the problem may mean that it is really the same bug, or a close relative.
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