Unclear error message when trying to save to a folder without write permission.

[kronprinsen]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

When I'm saving a open office odt document for the first time a dialog box says that it can't save the file because the file "nameless1" does not exist. Thatś true because itś the first time I save it and therefore it cannot exist. Basically I have to save the file as "namnlös1" in Swedish, thatś file default name like "nameless1" in English I guess. The bug means that I must use a default name to be able to save the document. When the file is created I can manually change it to the name I want.
Occurs in 8.04 LTS Open Office 2.4.
openoffice .org-core 1:2.4.1-lubuntu2

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 12 22:24:56 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

I got this error message at one stage--in my case I had accidentally changed the owner of the directory to be root. Can you check that the user as which you are running Openoffice has write permissions to the relevant folder?

[kronprinsen (andreas-a-larsson)]

Thomas K:
Yes, youŕe right. It is exactly as you describe. The bug report should then be to change the error message perhaps?

I attach the Swedish error message as a png file. It really tells you something else than the actual error.

BR Andreas

[Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and help make Ubuntu better I tested this and tried to save the document to / and I agree it's not entirely clear what the problem actually is.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

The message in English is:

"Error saving the document Untitled1:"
"/home/ccheney/test/test.odt does not exist."

Confirmed on openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-11ubuntu2

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This is fixed in OOo 1:3.0.1-1ubuntu1 in Jaunty and the ppa for Hardy/Intrepid. The message now says:

"
Error saving the document Untitled1:
Object not accessible.
The object cannot be accessed
due to insufficient user rights.
"

[scizmeli (sa-cizmeli)]

I am running OO version 3.01 installed from downloaded debs on ubuntu intrepid.

I edit a document at home. Update the version in the office through rsync. When at the office I open the document, it says :

"XXX is locked for editing by XXXX
Open document read only or open a copy of the document for editing."

I open it for editing and save it to replace the original file on disk. I obtain the following error :

Error saving the document Untitled1:
Object not accessible.
The object cannot be accessed
due to insufficient user rights.

The only way to continue to edit the document is to save it under another name. If I rename the file back to its original name after the re-editing, the error keeps coming back.

what to do? any ideas?

[Thomas Kluyver (takluyver)]

Scizmeli, check the user permissions of the office copy of the file using ls
-l. And if you have any further questions, please use the support part of
the site at: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu (rather than here, which
is for providing information relevant to the bug described above). Thanks!