After upgrading python to 2.6 and running python-updater, some openoffice's python scripts (such as mailmerge.py stop working). The issue has been reported upstream and in SuSE, and a fix is available: See http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100997 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448776 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: This is just an example of one script failing. The above urls show some more examples. 1. Update to python2.6 2. Run oowriter 3. Go to Tools->Option->Openoffice.org Writer->E-mail Merge 4. Enter your neighboring smtp server settings and press Test Settings Actual Results: The test settings action will always fail. Regardless of settings. The connection is not even established. Expected Results: The test should run successfully when the correct settings are entered, including establishing an smtp connection to the server
Created attachment 190494 [details, diff] fix for uno.py as applied to openoffice upstream
BTW this is my emerge info $ emerge --info Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.29-tuxonice-r1-lean i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.29-tuxonice-r1-lean-i686-Genuine_Intel-R-_CPU_T2300_@_1.66GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.0 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 May 2009 11:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p17-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.6.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3-r1 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.9 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.utf8" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en es" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib acl acpi aim akode alsa amarok apache2 arts asm avahi avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdparanoia cdr cdrom cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader doc dri dts dvd dvdr dvdread dvi eap-tls eds emboss encode esd evo exif fam fbsplash ffmpeg firefox flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glitz gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal iconv ipod ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kde4 kdeprefix ldap libg++ libnotify mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mpeg mpeg2 mplayer mudflap musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp openssl opensslcrypt oss pam pcre pdf pdflib perl phonon png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles svg svga sysfs tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fontstype1-fonts udev unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis win32codecs x86 xine xml xorg xosd xulrunner xv xvmc zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiationproxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Just wanted to add this only applies to OOo 3.0, as v3.1 already has this patch.
Already fixed upstream, closing
