[26769] in Athena Bugs
Re: ooffice 2.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Wed Mar 8 18:42:26 2006
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From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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>Alex asked if I could give a recipe that reproduces the bug.
>Steps follow....
Thanks to Jacob for doing the legwork on this. I verified that if I
start with a fresh Solaris ooffice 1.1.4 configuration (by deleting my
1.1.4 Sun local configuration directory and launching ooffice 1.1.4 on
Solaris once as he suggests), and if I then edit the line in files
~/OpenOffice1.1.4/user/basic/dialog.xlc and
~/OpenOffice1.1.4/user/basic/script.xlc starting with
<library:library library:name="WebWizard"...
to:
<library:library library:name="WebWizard"
xlink:href="file:///var/athena/local/ooffice_v1.1.4/distrib/sun4x_59/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/share/basic/WebWizard/script.xlb/"
xlink:type="simple"
library:link="true"
library:readonly="false"/>
then I see the problem as described (Jacob's dialog.xlc and script.xlc have
other differences from the ones created on a fresh install, but they seem
irrelevant to this particular problem). However neither I nor Jacob could
figure out what presumed operation performed in ooffice 1.1.4 created that
changed line in the first place from the version created in the fresh install:
<library:library library:name="WebWizard" library:link="true"/>
The reason the problem shows up is that there formerly was a local
/var/athena/local/ooffice_v1.1.4 that is not there any more; the link
Jacob proposes supplies a path to ooffice_v1.1.4 in the ooffice_v1.1.4
locker which still exists, and this seems to make ooffice happy. I
have no idea why having this changed line in the 1.1.4 Sun version affects
the 2.0 Linux version as the local configuration directories are distinct
by platform.
Given that there's no way to tell how many users are likely to be affected
by this (but no previous reports have come in that I'm aware of), I plan
to document this near the end of the README.athena in the ooffice_v2.0.1
locker but not change anything else.
Alex
