Openoffice Writer never finishes.

[Trond Danielsen]

On 9/21/06, Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:19:29AM +0200, Trond Danielsen wrote:
> > Hello Everybody!
> >
> > I have a problem with Openoffice: I have just installed Writer, and
> > to be sure I removed $HOME/.openoffice2.0.
>
> To be sure of what? Did you remove the directory before or after you
> installed Writer?

To be sure that any old settings were not the problem. I have used
Mandriva befofe.

>
> > Writer start ok, but when I close it, it never exits. If I kill it a
> > lock remains so that I can not start it again before I remove the
> > openoffice settings folder.
>
> Instead of removing the entire directory, try removing
> .openoffice.org2.0/.lock, which, judging from its name and contents,
> appears to be a lock file.
>
> >
> > My home dir is on a NFS share, could this be a problem?
>
> Yes, but probably not related to this problem. The potential problem
> is that some nfs installations do not lock files, or lock them
> incorrectly. If OOo (or any other app) uses file locks, it could be a
> problem. Fortunately this problem is rare and getting rarer.
>
Is there any way to find out if this is the problem?

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