[27178] in Athena Bugs
Re: OpenOffice on Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Thu Jan 31 18:49:31 2008
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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:49:09 -0500
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Hi, you reported:
>It seems that there is a bug with OpenOffice on Sun machines: Loading
>OpenOffice (from file or create a new document) on a Sun causes the
>file __db. to be created in the pwd. Also, when loading OpenOffice on
>a Sun, the presence of the file __db. in the pwd causes OpenOffice to
>hang.
Indeed you are correct. Thanks for reporting this! I worked around it by
having the launch script delete this file if found in the current directory
before launching ooffice. It should reach users by the next overnight AFS
propagation tonight.
Oddly, googling on this doesn't turn up any relevant hits, so the problem
must be uncommon, perhaps peculiar to our environment for some reason.
Alex
