On Friday 05 September 2008 16:01:17 Grant Edwards wrote:
> After my last "emerge -auvND world", openoffice stopped working
> for non-root users.  When I run
>
>   strace /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -writer
>
> I observe that the program hangs doing a waitpid() call on a
> child that was forked to run /usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin,
> and oosplash.bin is hung waiting on this call:
>
>   connect(3, {sa_family=AF_FILE,
> path="/tmp/OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52"},
> 110
>
> If I run oospalsh.bin from the command line, the same thing
> happens, it hangs trying to connect to a Unix domain socket.
>
> I've checked, and the socket does exist:
>
> $ ls -l /tmp | grep 'OSL'
> srwx------ 1 grante grante      0 Sep  3 23:03
> OSL_PIPE_1000_SingleOfficeIPC_353b22f3f3e79662742f7b9c3463e52
>
> Any ideas on what to do next?

so far everything looks right. Maybe check /tmp - what fs is it, and what are 
the mount options you use?



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