Unopkg package manager does not open over NFS

[Toltech]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

Openoffice has a way to deploy macros and menu items using unopck. This program can be run in a batch of from the menu (Tools->Package Manager).

The menu item should give a popup with the package manager,

The batch program crashes with the following error:

/usr/lib/openoffice/program/unopkg add MyHelloWorld.zip

ERROR: (com.sun.star.lang.WrappedTargetRuntimeException) { { { Message = "[context=\"user\"] caught unexpected exception!", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) 0x0 } }, TargetException = (any) { (com.sun.star.registry.InvalidRegistryException) { { Message = "Couldn't create registry file:///home/robert/.openoffice.org2/user/uno_packages/cache/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.component.PackageRegistryBackend/common.rdb for writing", Context = (com.sun.star.uno.XInterface) 0x0 } } } }

unopkg failed.

[Toltech (robert-toltech)]

Somehow this bug was filed under amd64, the bug is observed for the normal openoffice.org x86 package

[Toltech (robert-toltech)]

The change to openoffice.org

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

This looks like a potential permissions problem.

Could you please run:
   $ ls -lR /home/robert/.openoffice.org2 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ls-lR.log
and attach /tmp/ls-lR.log to this report?

As well, you may want to try temporarily moving away
/home/robert/.openoffice.org2 to another location and then firing up
OpenOffice. That may "resolve" the problem.

Thanks.

[Toltech (robert-toltech)]

I forgot to test the location of the profile. The home directory mentioned is
located on a nfs share.

Additional research now shows that the problem only exists if the
.openoffice.org2 profile is located on the nfs share. Moving the profile to a
local disk resolves the problem.

This makes the bug of a low priority, it is more a bug for openoffice and has nothing to do with the packaging. I have filed a bug in the openoffice bugtracker

thanks!

[Simon Law (sfllaw)]

I understand. It's a locking issue over NFS. Those are no fun.

For our reference, could you please provide us with the OpenOffice bug
number? We will link it to this bug so that we can track their progress.

Thanks!

[Toltech (robert-toltech)]

This is de openoffice bug number:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=68934

gr.
Robert

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I believe that this problem has been corrected in Ubuntu 7.10 OpenOffice 2.3.0. Can you please try with the updated version and let me know if it works for you?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Disregard previous comment, I replied to the wrong bug.

Chris

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you have the nfs-common package installed on the system? If not does installing it help to solve the problem for you?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 or Ubuntu hardy it appears to work there. If after upgrading you still have problems feel free to reopen this bug.