topic Re: How does Libreoffice start up? in Alfresco Forum

How does Libreoffice start up?

sistemi — Tue, 29 May 2018 11:03:43 GMT

Hello everybody, I am trying to get some informations about Libreoffice startup in Alfresco Community 201707 (last stable release).Today I noticed that document preview was not working anymore, so I searched for libreoffice/soffice process; I found that was in <defunct> state, so i killed it.

Re: How does Libreoffice start up?

cesarista — Tue, 29 May 2018 14:16:46 GMT

Hi:

As you noted Libreoffice manual script via alfresco.sh is broken (i saw this in several versions of Alfresco) when using the installer. You need either:

i) change ctl.sh to libreoffice_ctl.sh in alfresco.sh

ii) create a symbolic link in libreoffice/scripts

This should work and then you can start and stop libreoffice via alfresco.sh manually

On the other hand, this is not the way Alfresco starts transformation subsystem as you have ooo.exe property in alfresco-global.properties. In CE, you may need to restart Alfresco for restarting subsystem, if manual restarts did not work (once script is fixed).

Regards.

--C.

Re: How does Libreoffice start up?

paulthach — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 18:42:16 GMT

I had a similar issue. I found that libreoffice will start with or without the symlink to libreoffice_ctl.sh. Even though alfresco.sh looks for crl.sh file (LIBREOFFICE_SCRIPT=$INSTALLDIR/libreoffice/scripts/ctl.sh)

Recently, it starting libreoffice as root, with a defunct child process. Normally it run as non-root user.

/app/alfresco-5.2.3 # ps -ef | grep office
root 10863 1 0 14:21 pts/0 00:00:00 /opt/alfresco-5.2.3/libreoffice/program/.soffice.bin --nofirststartwizard --nologo --headless --accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100\;urp\;StarOffice.ServiceManager
root 10866 10863 0 14:21 pts/0 00:00:00 [.soffice.bin] <defunct>