I'm having trouble running openoffice 2 (various incarnations) as any nis user. It is basically slow or freezes completely during startup or exiting, depending on the user. The system is an emt64, but I don't think the problem is 64 bit related, seeing as it runs fine for local root and non-root users. What doesn't help: - disabling java - using openoffice-bin instead of the compiled version - deleting user openoffice files in the home directory (and whatever I can find in /tmp /var that might be related etc) What does work: - using the openoffice2 compiled under my local chroot32 system An annoying workaround, seeing as I have to su back and forth etc (and would like to free up that partition for other things :)) I've tried to solve this on and off for over a year. I can't find much in the forums or bug reports that matches the problem, apart from seeing it mentioned that changing the uid can fix non-root user problems. A lousy option as far as I'm concerned, since I'm not sure if it'll even work or when the problem will recur. I'd rather solve the problem on the local machine. Reproducible: Always
I had this. This was actually an NFS problem with file locking. I had to edit the soffice script in the openoffice/bin directory to disable file and config file locking.
I've stumbled across a possible solution to this. To fix another issue that arose recently, it was recommended to replace netmount with nfsmount in init.d . It seems to have fixed the openoffice problem as well. Will wait and see....
