I've recently installed bibus, which would be an extremely important program for me to get rid of EndNote@windows. I've succesfully set up bibus-1.2.0 on gentoo. I have openoffice-2.2.1 compiled using system's python. Python-2.4.4-r4 is compiled with ucs4. I have wxGTK-2.4.2, wxGTK-2.6.3.3 and wxpython-2.6.3.3 installed. I've followed the documentation and successfully set up a MySQL database for bibus, which works fine. I've also used the macro shipped with bibus to activate UNO listening function. Everytime I tried to connect to openoffice from bibus, the program hanged. If I used netstat, it showed, that the connection was established. I dig myself into openoffice pyuno config files and environment variables: finally I had PYTHONPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH exported everywhere one can imagine. If I try "import uno" and "import unohelper" I got no error messages. Systems logs showed nothing mentionable related to this problem. I've ended up with a simple hello world pyuno program, which also hanged just right after initiating the connection. With the valuable help of Jörg Budischewski, I could further track down the problem. It turned out, that if I boot a non-secured kernel python-UNO-bridge works fine. The next step was to determine which security option interacts badly with python-UNO. CONFIG_PAX_MPROTECT is guilty. For those who want quick a workaround: Paxctl userland tool can change the security settings on a per binary basis. Disabling MPROTECT on the python executable will provide a temporary fix at the expense of lowering the system's security measures. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
