From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jun 13 11:14:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from scotth.emsphone.com (scotth.emsphone.com [199.67.51.179]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1447A37B403 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 11:14:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shildret@scotth.emsphone.com) Received: (from shildret@localhost) by scotth.emsphone.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f5DIArT53453; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:10:53 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from shildret) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010613102810E.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:10:53 -0500 (CDT) From: "Scott T. Hildreth" To: Jordan Hubbard , tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de Subject: Re: staroffice 5.2 not finding sofficerc and all faq's fail Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG 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 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 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