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[EP-tech] Re: OpenOffice failed to start

As the user ‘eprints’ what does the command ‘which python’ give?

I’d try that as a first option – on our RedHat system, it’s /usr/bin/python

 

Check the user/group for the ~/archives/ARCHIVEID/var/opennoffce.log file too – this might have been created as the www-data user?

 

Cheers,

John

 

From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jacob Wenzel
Sent: 19 May 2014 11:40
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] Re: OpenOffice failed to start

 

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I've actually tried fiddling with several versions of LibreOffice and OpenOffice and finally reverted to OpenOffice from the main lucid repository (i've made sure to purge old installs before trying new ones), because all had the same behaviour.

I had to change the paths in ~/lib/cfg.d/openoffice.pl, because I initially saw the error "OpenOffice is not installed on your system".

I could easily search for soffice.bin and change the path to:
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin

$c->{executables}->{openoffice} = '/usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin';

However there is no "python" in the same folder, and searching for it gives me several locations, because there is no file extension, so I am not sure which location to choose.

Am I looking for a file or a folder, and are there any clues, that might point me to the right path?

Running:
~/archives/ARCHIVEID/bin/openoffice-local.pl ARCHIVEID start

Gives me "Permission denied". User and group for openoffice-local.pl is www-data. I've tried changing the user to eprints, but still "permission denied".

The log file is now appended to, but unfortunately it is not very helpful:
"...
OpenOffice process died, restarting...
Starting OpenOffice
Tried 10 times to start OpenOffice in the last 15 secs. Something is wrong, leaving now"

Thanks again for you help. I guess I'll try all the "python" locations just to make sure, but I have no idea what to do about the permission denied error.

Med venlig hilsen/Best regards

JACOB WENZEL
Projektleder

ENERGIAKADEMIET
Strandengen 1
8305 SAMSØ
+45 60 61 15 97
jw@energiakademiet.dk
www.energiakademiet.dk

On 19-05-2014 11:19, John Salter wrote:

Try running it from the commandline:

~/archives/ARCHIVEID/bin/openoffice-local.pl ARCHIVEID start

 

I’d have a look at the following:

~/lib/cfg.d/openoffice.pl

and check all the paths are OK – it may be that Ubuntu installs them elsewhere. I had to tweak it slightly as we use LibreOffce.

 

I think that by default, the openoffice log is overwritten, not appended to (this may have changed since I last looked at it though). Look in ~/lib/plugins/EPrints/Plugin/OpenOffice.pm, at the ‘new’ sub – you might want to change:

if( open( $fh, "+>".$self->logfile() ) )

to

if( open( $fh, ">>".$self->logfile() ) )

 

If you’re using OpenOffice for coversheets, it’s also worth knowing that the indexer (that process’ the events) uses it’s own copy of the EPrints stack – so any changes to the config of a reo require the indexer to be restarted before they are picked up.

 

Cheers,

John

       

 

 

From: eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk [mailto:eprints-tech-bounces@ecs.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Jacob Wenzel
Sent: 19 May 2014 07:23
To: eprints-tech@ecs.soton.ac.uk
Subject: [EP-tech] OpenOffice failed to start

 

In EPrints v3.3.12 on Ubuntu Server 10.04.04: Whenever I press "Start OpenOffice", EPrints displays the message: "OpenOffice started".

But when I refresh the page or click somewhere else and go back, a red error message is displayed reading "Failed to start OpenOffice".

"Openoffice.log" in "/usr/share/eprints3/var" is completely empty, even though it seems to be edited every time I try to start OpenOffice from EPrints.

This is driving me nuts, please help me solve this puzzle. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

--

Med venlig hilsen/Best regards

JACOB WENZEL
Projektleder

ENERGIAKADEMIET
Strandengen 1
8305 SAMSØ
+45 60 61 15 97
jw@energiakademiet.dk
www.energiakademiet.dk




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