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Subject: Successful emulation of StarOffice depends on filesystem layout
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>Number:         23125
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Successful emulation of StarOffice depends on filesystem layout
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    mbr
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Nov 26 22:50:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:    Wed Sep 11 07:35:58 PDT 2002
>Last-Modified:  Wed Sep 11 07:35:58 PDT 2002
>Originator:     Judd Storrs
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
University of Cincinnati FreeOS Users Group
>Environment:

FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386
SMP with 2xPII 350
128MB RAM
Adaptec SCSI-LVD using ahc

>Description:

The FreeBSD linux emulation has problems with StarOffice when StarOffice is not installed on /usr. 

More precisely I initially installed StarOffice without problems into /usr/local at a time when /usr/local was just a directory on my /usr. I was able to run StarOffice without problem. 

I then created a new partition and moved /usr/local into this new partiton and StarOffice would nolonger function properly and failed to startup, always dropping back into StarOffice install.

So, I pkg_delete'd StarOffice and reinstalled only to have the same problems. Finally I just moved /usr/local/office52 to /usr/office52 and voila, StarOffice magically worked as before.

I should also note that I have no problems running other Linux programs off of /usr/local (For example I have the linux versions of Netscape and Mathematica both installed on /usr/local and they both run beautifully)

>How-To-Repeat:

Install StarOffice NOT on the /usr partition. (I'm not sure if it has to just be a partition other than the partion containing /usr/compat/linux? I can check it out after Dec. 8 if you like)

>Fix:

mv /usr/local/office52 /usr/office52



>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, judd@one.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/23125: Successful emulation of StarOffice depends on 
 filesystem layout
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:09:12 +0100

 I have installed onto /usr/local, which is a separate
 partition. This works fine. I even used amd to nfs mount
 /usr/local, so it was mounted on /.a/server/usr/local, and this
 was OK too. I do have linux installed in /usr/local too, with a
 /compat -> /usr/local/compat symlink. This might have something
 to with it, but it all sounds strange.
 

From: Tobias Ernst <tobi@bland.fido.de>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, judd@one.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/23125: Successful emulation of StarOffice depends on 
 filesystem layout
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 11:37:40 +0200

 Hi.
 
 In my case, /usr/local and /compat -> /usr/compat reside on the same
 partition and it still does not work (dialog box about SO not finding
 sofficerc, which in fact is there, and truss not showing any signs of SO
 searching for this file). The problem must be buried elsewhere. I tried
 german Staroffice 5.2 and Englisch Staroffice 5.1. FreeBSD 4.3-BETA, no
 SMP in my case.
 
 Regards,
 Tobias.
 
 
 

From: ean Kingston <ean@localhost.hedron.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, judd@one.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/23125: Successful emulation of StarOffice depends on filesystem layout
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 11:54:44 -0500

 This may be a problem unique to SMP kernels. I have two systems running 
 FreeBSD 4.4. Once is a dual PIII-850, the other is a PII-366. They both have 
 identical disk setup: separate /usr and /usr/local, /usr/compat/linux for 
 linux emulation.
 
 Staroffice runs fine from /usr/local on the single processor but the dual 
 system seams to need staroffice on /usr to work.
 
 -- 
 Ean Kingston (ean@certaintysolutions.com)
 UNIX Systems Specialist
 Certainty Solutions (www.certaintysolutions.com)
Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-ports->mbr 
Responsible-Changed-By: lioux 
Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Dec 20 11:36:17 PST 2001 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Over to maintainer 

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23125 
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: mbr 
State-Changed-When: Mon Sep 9 11:28:23 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is this problem still existent ? I've not been able to reproduce 
it at work with ~10 staroffice instastallations, and staroffice6.0 
doesn't show this behaviour too. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23125 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: mbr 
State-Changed-When: Wed Sep 11 07:35:00 PDT 2002 
State-Changed-Why:  
Submitter told me that he can not reproduce this problem 
on UP anymore. OpenOffice or StarOffice6.0 works on SMP 
so I'll close this PR. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=23125 
>Unformatted:
