libreoffice and NFS

[Ed Greshko]

On 06/01/2011 02:26 PM, JD wrote:
> On 05/31/11 22:59, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> F15/64 bit.
>>
>> Has anyone else tried opening a document in libreoffice when the
>> document in on an NFS file system?
>>
>> It reports that the document is locked by "user unknown" and will offer
>> to open the document read-only.  It will also fail to save the document
>> on the NFS file system.
>>
>> However, if I run /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin directly,
>> it is OK....
>>
>> Nothing found in bugzilla
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ed
> Hi Ed,
> I do not run libreoffice, but I thought you
> might check the command in /usr/bin to
> see what args it is passing to the script
> that starts soffice.bin
>

Thanks for the suggestion.....  Somehow it has something to do with file 
locking.

I edited the /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice script to comment 
out the line:

SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1

and it now works "properly".

Will have to bugzilla it....