Bug 81446

Summary:	OpenOffice-1.1.4 writer doesn't handle HTTP external program properly
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lindsay Haisley <fmouse-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Office Team <office>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lindsay Haisley 2005-02-09 20:12:22 UTC

Setting the HTTP external program in OO Tools | Options dialog doesn't work properly.  This may be a mozilla bug, but here's what happens.

Setting this program to 'firefox' should access the symbolic link /usr/bin/firefox which links to the executable shell script /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher.  This script knows the name by which it was called and runs through a set of cases to do the proper setup.  However, no matter whether I use firefox or mozilla as the HTTP external app, the script fails with the followng error:

/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: unknown browser

Modifying script to show the name of the calling program in this error, I would get:

/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: mozilla-launcher: unknown browser

What's apparently happening here is that Open Office is dereferencing the symbolic links /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/mozilla internally and calling /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher directly, which won't work since this script must be called using the symbolic links.  Using galeon, or calling /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin instead (both of which are executables rather than links) works as expected.

Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-02-11 02:26:39 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78890 ***