Alistair Crust wrote:
Hi
I don't know if this is what your after but we have a similar problem with OOo
and LTSP.
The problem we were seeing was that OOo seemed not to shut down correctly, thus
leaving a lock file in tmp. As we didn't have the opertunity to do a clean fix
for the problem the hack was a script entitled "repair-open-office.sh" (Details
bellow, alter version of 00o to suit) if a user found they could not start OOo
then they run this script that removes the lock and clears the /tmp dir of all
those users tmp files. Not nice I know but it works for us.
We run LTSP in a Grammar School in Linconshire UK, and have had this problem for
years. We've used Red Hat, Suse, but have now settle on Deb' Sarge. and it runs
lovely.
We also wrote a script to fix the default profile in use problem with firefox.
Again a dirty hack but it works well.
We have four LTSP servers and one NFS/NIS server. So I placed the new scripts on
/home (The NFS mount) and altered our icewm menu to run /home/repair-firefox.sh
instead of firefox, and added repair-open-office.sh to the office menu we had
created. Then uploaded the menu to all 4 LTSP servers. Job done! The kids can
see
repair open office in the menu and never even know about the firefox default
profile problem.
Regards
Alistair Crust
Skegness Grammar School
Lincolnshire
UK
repair-open-office.sh
#!/bin/sh
rm -v ~/.openoffice/1.1.3/.lock
rm -v -rf /tmp/*
exec oowriter
repair-firefox.sh
#!/bin/sh
rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/lock
exec firefox http://www.google.co.uk
Thank you, Ill give these a shot next time the issue comes up. Ive
never had an issue with Firefox, but have been using the most recent
download and not whatever is in debian stable.
- A Gilmore
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