Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:10:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Scott T. Hildreth" <shildreth@emsphone.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: staroffice 5.2 not finding sofficerc and all faq's fail Message-ID: <XFMail.010613131053.shildreth@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20010613102810E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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I'm still running staroffice5.1 without any problems, that I know of. I can read *.xls, *.doc files and print, which is what I wanted it for. I haven't tried 5.2 and apparently I won't be anytime soon. On 13-Jun-01 Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de (Tobias Ernst) > Subject: staroffice 5.2 not finding sofficerc and all faq's fail > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:33:16 +0200 > >> 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. > > All I can say is that this appears to be a real Heisenbug. I've seen > it myself, and in fact I can't get StarOffice to work for anything on > my desktop box even though it USED to work there. It works fine on my > laptop and on another desktop box of mine, however, and from all I can > see the permissions are correct and everything else is identical on > the various machines. I've even removed that sofficerc file and > watched StarOffice happily create it again, but still the error > message. Whatever the problem is, when we eventually find it we're > probably going to see that it was something really strange, like the > permission on some completely unrelated file under /compat/linux or > whether or not your machine's name starts with the letters a, r, q or > w or something. :-) > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@emsphone.com> Date: 13-Jun-01 Time: 13:05:35 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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