Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:50:38 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why StarOffice continuously restarted setup - the answer Message-ID: <20000316185038.B7551@orion.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <38D18963.151086DC@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:51PM -0500 References: <38D18963.151086DC@bellatlantic.net>
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[This is -questions material, not -hackers, redirecting] On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:51PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote: > A while ago I tried to install StarOffice and had > a problem that every time I tried to start it it went > into setup again and again. I've asked about this > in -hackers and found that some people had the same > problem but nobody has a solution. Well, I've found that > solution today and in case anyone else hits that problem, > here it is: I'm using the July '99 4.0-SNAPSHOT and > in that snapshot reading /proc/NNN/cmdline returns > a line with '\n' on the end. StarOffice tried to open > a file with that name (its own code) and, of course, failed. > Removing that '\n' in procfs fixed the things. One > more catch is that the StarOffice bin directory must be in > the path, otherwise the same problem follows. > > Both of these problems seem to be already fixed in -current. See http://www.br.freebsd.org/staroffice.html This page describes the problems causing setup to run again and again. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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