From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 23 0:59:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F54F15662 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 00:59:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id IAA34876; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:56:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 08:56:29 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Kevin Day Cc: Sergey Babkin , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: StarOffice 5.1 - infinite setup ? Message-ID: <19990923085629.A33739@florence.pavilion.net> References: <37E97536.86987137@bellatlantic.net> <199909230146.UAA71196@celery.dragondata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <199909230146.UAA71196@celery.dragondata.com> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 08:46:42PM -0500, Kevin Day wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have got a surprising problem with StarOffice 5.1 > > for Linux on FreeBSD 4.0-current, the latest snapshot. > > The CD-ROM installation went fine (after I configured the > > Posix real-time thread support and linked the > > additional libraries to the Linux compatibility > > directory and slightly corrected the startup scripts) > > but when I start the installed program "soffice" > > it just starts the setup screen again! Tried to > > go through it, select no additional components, > > the setup says that everything is installed and exits. > > I was not able to get anything else from it. > > > > Has anyone met this problem before ? Any ideas > > would be welcome. Thank you! > > > > -SB > > > We've got a similar problem. Instals fine as root, runs fine a 'joe', but if anyone else tries to run it they get the setup screen! My hunch is that it's something to do with permissions on Sys5 IPC queues or something. A Ktrace of both showed that different things were going on, but I lost the plot before working out exactly what. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message