[27180] in Athena Bugs
Re: OpenOffice on Suns
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Thu Jan 31 20:14:44 2008
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From: William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:14:30 -0500
To: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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I tried to reproduce this bug, but the system I used had a DIFFERENT
problem that had kept it at Athena 9.4.15 since 2005. There was an
__db. file in my home directory which was created by OpenOffice in
2006, but when I ran OpenOffice this afternoon it did not touch the
file, nor did it create a new one when I moved the old one aside.
I was going to re-test on that system after it updated to a more
current Athena release and then report my findings, but Alex's
information prompted me to speak now.
-Bill
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On Jan 31, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Alex T Prengel wrote:
>
> 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
>
