Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:32, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Hm, let's see... First draft: Setup does not work - abort --- [...] 3. If you are using NFS mounted file systems, you should make sure that locking is functioning: 'Make sure NFS lockd is running on the client, or mount

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-26 Thread Chris Halls
On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 22:32, Gavin Hamill wrote: > Hm, let's see... > > 'Make sure NFS lockd is running on the client, or mount the NFS export which > contains /usr with the 'nolock' option. > > If /usr gets mounted from an initrd, check 'ps' output once the system is > fully booted to ensure t

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-25 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:08, Chris Halls wrote: > Great, thanks for following up with information about that. No worries - there's nothing worse than seeing your exact problem on a list, but no solution. > Do you think you could summarise the hints you gathered into a short > paragraph th

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-24 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 15:49, Gavin Hamill wrote: > OK, opened, and closed already. > > The solution was quite subtle :) Great, thanks for following up with information about that. Do you think you could summarise the hints you gathered into a short paragraph that we can put in README.Debian to

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-24 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:51, Chris Halls wrote: > > So, not a desirable solution, but a solution nonetheless ... > > Would you mind opening a new issue at openoffice.org and describe your > problem and the workaround you found? That would help make sure that > this gets looked at and fixed for 2

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-24 Thread Chris Halls
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 10:20, Gavin Hamill wrote: > However, I mounted the rootfs with the 'nolock' option and all is well > again. It's fortunate that the rootfs is mounted readonly, for I > certainly wouldn't like to have mounted a rw export without locking! :/ > > What's interesting is that I

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-24 Thread Gavin Hamill
On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 12:49:12PM +0100, Chris Halls wrote: > "The problem was resolved when I started to use the nfs-kernel Debian > package instead of nfs-user Debian package." Nope, am already using nfs-kernel :) > Also, does the workaround described help? Nope, same thing with or without S

Re: OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-23 Thread Chris Halls
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:46, Gavin Hamill wrote: > I seem to have the same problem as this guy, but his e-mail address now > bounces, and was curious if the problem has since come to light by > others before I file a more formal bug report: I've not had any more feedback on the problem that he had

OOo 1.1 in sid with rootfs mounted readonly via NFS

2004-02-23 Thread Gavin Hamill
Hi :) I've just built a sid installation based on KDE and rolled this out to multiple PXE-booting desktops, mounting the entire rootfs as readonly (with some remapping of /var, /tmp, /etc etc.) I seem to have the same problem as this guy, but his e-mail address now bounces, and was curious if the