libreoffice and NFS

[Bill Davidsen]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 01/06/11 02:55, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> 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....
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>      I can't read text or spreadsheet data from NFS with Libreoffice.
>
>      Otherwise NFS is working normally and Libreoffice will work with the
>      same files copied to this computer.
>
>      I tried setting
>
>          SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
>          to
>          SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=0
>
>
>      It does not help. There seems to be something else going on with
>      Libreoffice. This is F-15 32 on a 64 bit computer if that matters
>      other than that I am dealing with
>      "./usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice."
>
Lack of NFS capability is a problem. I use remote mounted spreadsheets quite a 
bit. I also use sshfs mounted directories, will have to check if that works 
differently than NFS. For that matter, the critical local stuff goes through 
fuse mount and encfs, so I have to check that as well.

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