Problem with Openoffice 2.0.2 on FreeBSD 6.1

[Rob Hurle]

Hi Eduardo,

	Thanks for the comments:

> > 	That's the background, here is the problem.
> > OOo2.0.2 works
> > well and is a great improvement over its
> > predecessor, StarOffice 5.2.
> > However, in trying to open almost any document not
> > made by OOo2.0.2 I
> > get "General error - General I/O error".  I can open
> > some documents
> > (e.g. spreadsheets) by inserting them, but others
> > (e.g. StarWriter
> > files, MS Office documents) can not be opened at
> > all.
> >
> > 	I am sure that I have done something wrong in the
> > build, but
> > what is it and how can I undo it or redo it?
> [snip]...
> Hi Rob
> Maybe your build is OK.  The problem you mention is
> about locking and NFS.
>
> You can fix that by commenting this on
> /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.3/program/soffice
>
> # file locking now enabled by default
> #SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
> #export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING

I tried this, but General Error still came to visit me.  The error
occurs when I try to read both NFS files and local ones.  I'm running
out of ideas, but I'll insert some diagnostic writes in the scripts so
that I can see what environment is being passed over.  Thanks again.

Cheers,

Rob Hurle
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