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OpenOffice not listening 8100 on boot, kills transformations

hikenboots — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:06:35 GMT

(This is an issue with openoffice, not alfresco, I'm just hoping someone who is using openoffice has seen this before. I'm out of ideas.)The problem is that when the server starts, openoffice is not listening on port 8100 so transformations fail. A simple manual shutdown and restart of Alfresco (t

Re: OpenOffice not listening 8100 on boot, kills transformations

hikenboots — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:45:23 GMT

Sorry to answer my own question here. I got it to work after a whole day of testing and want to share my results. I think that headless openoffice needs to be able to find a user's folder to run correctly. Starting it explicitly as a user using `su - aUser -c` allows it to do so. Pure supposition on my part, but it's working.

If your openoffice won't listen on 8100 after a reboot, try modifying start_oo.sh as follows:

#!/bin/sh
# —————————————————————————
# Start script for the OpenOffice transform service
# —————————————————————————

export DISPLAY=:1
echo "Starting Xvfb…"
`/usr/X11R6/bin/Xvfb -fp /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc :1 -screen 0 800x600x16 -fbdir /usr/src` &

echo "Starting OpenOffice service…"
cd /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program
su - root -c "/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice \"-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager -norestore -invisible -headless -display :1\" &"

Re: OpenOffice not listening 8100 on boot, kills transformations

abichet — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:52:39 GMT

hi
i try your code but i have an error:

SRV-PROJETS:/usr/local/alfresco# ./start_oo.sh
Starting Xvfb…
Starting OpenOffice service…
SRV-PROJETS:/usr/local/alfresco# I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
   Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

Re: OpenOffice not listening 8100 on boot, kills transformations

hikenboots — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:04:11 GMT

Hi Arnaud,

Two questions: Are you installing OpenOffice on a linux box where the only installed GUI is Xvfb? (I've never tried it on a machine where anything other than Xvfb installed.) Also, if so, were you able to get OpenOffice registered and successfully running transformations as per http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1036&highlight=xvfb first?

hi
i try your code but i have an error:

SRV-PROJETS:/usr/local/alfresco# ./start_oo.sh
Starting Xvfb…
Starting OpenOffice service…
SRV-PROJETS:/usr/local/alfresco# I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
/opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display:
   Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option
   or check permissions of your X-Server
   (See "man X" resp. "man xhost" for details)

Re: OpenOffice not listening 8100 on boot, kills transformations

fajo — Thu, 18 May 2006 22:29:42 GMT

I experienced the same on SunOS 5.9 using Xvfb - after some investigation I found, that the problem was caused by a X server reset after the the last client session has disconnected.

OO seems to connect multiple times - but only one session is kept open. After the first session disconnects there are no more sessions open and the X server performs a reset that causes the next connection attempt to fail.

A possible workaround is to start a small X application (xclock,…) first after the X server has started. This will keep at least one connection open and OO will not comlain any longer. Do not forget to set the right display number (either via -display :<n> oder the DISPLAY env) for the X application you are using.