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Re: linux 9.3.16: OpenOffice.org does not start

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jan 6 20:05:36 2005

Message-Id: <200501070104.j0714rXl009757@dit.mit.edu>
To: rpigneri@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[26275] in Athena Bugs"
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 20:04:53 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
cc: alexp@mit.edu
cc: bugs@mit.edu
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Hi, you reported:

>What were you trying to do?
>        I was trying to start up OpenOffice.org to convert a document
>        written in OpenOffice.org to MSOffice.
> 
>What's wrong:
> 
>        The following error appears on the command prompt each time I
>        try to start OOo:
> 
>       javaldx: could not create link of name:
>       /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/a/l/alexp/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/user/temp/java/a
>       which links to /usr/java/j2sdk/jre/bin, symlink error: -1
 
This was caused by an error in a configuration file used in Open Office
1.1.4 which became evident when 1.1.4 was made the default last night. It
has since been corrected and Open Office should be working properly now.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience.

                                      Alex Prengel
                                      MIT Academic Computing
                                      UNIX THird Party Software Support

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