Hundreds of 'soffice.bin' after startup

[Dmitry Maruschenko]

My operating system is Kubuntu Linux 7.04 (with daily dist-upgrades).

After KDE startup my system slows down and then hungs up totally. 'ps ax' shows me hundreds of 'soffice.bin' processes in memory:

< ... >

7192 ? R
0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7206 ? R 0:00 find /home/admin/.mozilla/firefox -name cert8.db
 7220 ? R
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7221 ? S
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7222 ? S
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5

< ... >

 7237 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7238 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7239 ? R
0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7240 ? R
0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7241 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/ooffice -nologo -nodefault
 7242 ? S
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/ooqstart -nologo -nodefault
 7243 ? R
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/ooqstart -nologo -nodefault
 7244 ? R
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/ooqstart -nologo -nodefault
 7245 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7246 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7247 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7248 ? S 0:00 head -n 1
 7249 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7250 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7251 ? D

< ... >

0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7295 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5
 7296 ? D
0:00 /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin -nologo -nodefault -splash-pipe=5

...and so on. When I am quick enough to do 'killall soffice.bin' before my system is owned by these 'soffice.bin's, I can work as usual. But the same thing can happen during my normal work and I don't know what causes such behaviour.

The same thing was with Kubuntu 6.10.

I have OpenOffice 2.2 installed with oooqs2-kde. KDE resumes last session on startup. 'soffice.bin' is excluded from KDE session management.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

gotta report to upstream

[Manu (manu59240)]

same problem on kubuntu 7.04 with oooqs2-kde : distro hangs up after few seconds at start-up.
A "top" showed that soffice.bin ran in multiple instances.

apt-get remove oooqs2-kde resolved the problem.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Bug #50136 came up with a patch, which actually seems to fix the issue. I'll talk to upstream to have a look into it and maybe release a new version.

[111 (789560)]

The same problem on Kubuntu 7.10, thought the multiple instances often vanished after some minutes. This happens only if the "use openoffice.org 2 quickstart mode" option in oooqs2 is enabled.
Maybe you can add an option to confine how long oooqs2 may wait untill it starts an other openoffice instance?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

This package was removed from the archives for upcoming 9.10 release. It is horribly broken and apparently unmaintained. There is little interest to pursue this issue. I recommend to not use oooqs2-kde.