topic Script to restart libreoffice when it freeze in Alfresco Archive

Script to restart libreoffice when it freeze

boiss007 — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:54:46 GMT

Hello all,I administer a 4.2.e community instance of alfresco, on a debian server (tomcat/postgre). It works great but some of the documents in the repository were created with office 2003 and throw error when alfresco try to transform them for the preview; It is not a big problem except that someti

Re: Script to restart libreoffice when it freeze

sasquatch58 — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:45:32 GMT

Have a look at loftux scripts in https://github.com/loftuxab/alfresco-ubuntu-install
That may give some pointers on monitoring/ restarting libreoffice

Cheers, Sasquatch

Re: Script to restart libreoffice when it freeze

boiss007 — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:58:58 GMT

thank you, it helped to see i am not the only one with this problem. Or that someone wants to help. But it is not really my solution. I know how to crontab or how to use alfresco scripts, i want to find a way to activate the script when and only when libreoffice crash alfresco. But I will use temporary fixes for now - I reduced the max size of doc files to preview, I had already a crontab to restart libreoffice twice a day… It helps but my clients hate to have to call me because "the alfresco is broken again"…

Re: Script to restart libreoffice when it freeze

scouil — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 17:03:35 GMT

Hi,

With the enterprise version you can use the jodconverter for openoffice.
http://docs.alfresco.com/4.1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.alfresco.enterprise.doc%2Fconcepts%2FOOo-subsystems-intro.html
It usually solves most of the problems you have with the default openoffice connector.

Re: Script to restart libreoffice when it freeze

boiss007 — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 15:34:05 GMT

thanks a lot scouil, but that's not helping.
First because everybody know that jodconverter is presented as the solution to libreoffice problems, and is only accessible through the enterprise edition.
Second because it has nothing to do with my question, and my problem… I like the libreoffice transformer and the community edition, and what i need to find is why for some transformation libreoffice will use all the thread tomcat can handle, or how to do a restart of alfresco/libreoffice when it does