openoffice does not work over NFS?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou <walsimou at walsimou.com> writes:

> Gaye Abdoulaye Walsimou a écrit :
>> Hello list,
>> What can I do, to have openoffice.org-2.2.1 working in my 6.2-STABLE
>> i386 Box.
>> I download the package OOo_2.2.1_FreeBSD62Intel_install_fr.tbz from
>> ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.2.1/i386
>> : same behavior
>> I compiled from editors/openoffice.org-2 with : make
>> LOCALIZED_LANG=fr WITH_CCACHE=yes -DWITHOUT_MOZILLA -DWITH_CUPS
>> -DWITH_KDE: and I had same behavior.
>> All ports installed in my box are up to date (jdk-1.6.0.1p1_2,
>> diablo-jdk-1.5.0.07.01_6,cairo-1.4.10, glitz-0.5.6_1, etc... ).
>> Thanks a lot for any suggestion
>>
>>
>>
> openoffice seems to not work, when a user home dir is over NFS.
> To test it, I created two new test users: test and test1.
> test has his home dir in: "nfs_server:/mnt/hdd1/home/test
> /usr/home/test" (home dir is over nfs)
> test1 has his home dir in: /usr/local/test (home dir is in local file
> system)
> Conclusion:
> With test user, openoffice did not work (over NFS)
> With test1 user, openoffice worked fine.
>
> All users are stored in openldap directory, which is also the NFS server.

You probably need lockd running, and possibly rpc.statd.  
Both have knobs defined for invoking them from rc.conf(5).