From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jun 13 3: 8:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from morannon.fido.de (morannon.fido.de [62.208.83.225]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5080A37B405 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:08:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de) Received: from gate.fido.de (news@localhost) by morannon.fido.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/redhat6-morannon-4.4a) with FIDOGATE id MAA22336; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:11:01 +0200 Received: by sungate-ftn.fido.de (FIDOGATE 4.4.4) id AA22334; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 12:11:01 +0200 Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:33:16 +0200 From: tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de (Tobias Ernst) Reply-To: tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de Subject: staroffice 5.2 not finding sofficerc and all faq's fail Message-ID: To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org (UUCP) Organization: Fido.DE domain gateway (Moving Bits e.V.) Lines: 65 X-Gateway: FIDO morannon.fido.de [FIDOGATE 4.4.4] X-FTN-From: Tobias Ernst @ 242:4900/99.0 X-FTN-To: UUCP @ 242:4900/99.0 X-FTN-Via: 242:7600/0@fido.de @20010613.115617 CFR-OS/2 20010216-devel X-FTN-Via: FIDOGATE/ftntoss 242:1000/1.0, Wed Jun 13 2001 at 12:01:17 CEST X-FTN-Via: FIDOGATE/ftntoss 242:1000/2.0, Wed Jun 13 2001 at 12:11:00 CEST X-FTN-Domain: Z242@fidode MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi! Like every year in spring, I thought I give a try to install Staroffice onto my FreeBSD machine, expecting that after two years of frustration maybe this year it could work. I used the german/staroffice52 port. Did "make install" as root, then "make install-user" as user. Added ~/office52 to my path. But it doesn't work. I searched all Newsgroups and all mailinglists and observed all hints found there - still no luck. The symptom is well known - install and user install works, and then when the uers starts soffice, he'll get a dialog box complaining about Staroffice not being able to find /home/username/office52/users/sofficerc though the file is there. The following tricks did not help: * ln -s /home /compat/linux/home * Using truss to find out where applicat.rdb is searched and creating symlinks to help it find applicat.rdb. In my truss output, Staroffice does not even try to find any file named applicat.rdb, sofficerc or the like. * Installing linux-jdk before installing staroffice52. * pkg_deleteing everything found in /var/db/pkg that starts with "linux" or "staroffice" and then installing linux_base from scratch and staroffice52 from scratch. * Removing any Staroffice reminiscencies from the users's home. As the problem seems to subtly depend on system details, here is a detailed description of my system and what I did: 1. FreeBSD 4-STABLE, cvsupped some weeks before 4.3 was released. 2. Ports tree rm -rf'ed and freshly cvsupped just a week ago. 3. The machine is partitioned like this: /dev/da0a 127023 89236 27626 76% / /dev/da0e 2625952 1843603 572273 76% /usr /dev/da0f 1385983 464705 810400 36% /var /dev/ccd0c 4096637 3508552 260355 93% /home 4. The machine is headless. Maybe this could be the problem? I am working on a IBM network station (think of it as a dumb X11 terminal like the old XStation), called "kronos", which uses xdmcp to connect to xdm which runs on the FreeBSD machine ("romulus"). OK, I am logged in as user "tobi", working on kronos, having a full xdm login on romulus. So I type "su" to become root. Then type "xauth merge ~tobi/.Xsession; export DISPLAY=kronos:0". 5. Now, as root, I do "cd /usr/ports/german/staroffice52; make all install". In the install dialog box, I don't change anything, accept the default installation, accept the default path, everything. Just happy "OK" and "Continue" clicking. 6. After this is done, I type "exit" to become the user "tobi" again. Then I do "/usr/ports/german/staroffice52; make install-user". Again I only click "OK" and "Continue" and the like. 7. After this is done, I type "export PATH=/home/tobi/office52:$PATH" and "soffice". And I get the known infamous dialog box. So what am I doing wrong? Should I post a full truss output of this? I inspected it for all sorts of "file not found" messages, but all of them seem to be quite normal (just soffice looking for .so files in the wrong place, but right after that finding them in the right place). It can't really be a problem with me not "exitting and restarting X11" as advertised in some installation guides? After all I'm not using KDE or anything. It cannot mean that I have to reboot my network station during root and user install, can it? Kind Regards, Tobias. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message