No transforms are working after successful install

[pepperking]

we are currently running the lastest version 2.1 with MYSQL.  Nearly all other aspects of the install are working fine including ldap and passthru authentication and have sucessfully added custom spaces.  However when ever we create any rules to transform files from one mimetype to another we get the following error below in the log and an error on the front end which says:

A system error happened during the operation: Unknown Exception in Transaction

We have tried nearly every combination of different items to transform to each with the same result.  This is via the web interface and/or CIFS. Am stumped without a solution for this.

Caused by: javax.transaction.RollbackException: Transaction didn't commit: No transformation exists between mimetypes application/msword and text/html
   at org.alfresco.util.transaction.SpringAwareUserTransaction.commit(SpringAwareUserTransaction.java:430)
   at org.alfresco.repo.transaction.RetryingTransactionHelper.doInTransaction(RetryingTransactionHelper.java:239)
   … 32 more
Caused by: org.alfresco.service.cmr.repository.NoTransformerException: No transformation exists between mimetypes application/msword and text/html
   at org.alfresco.repo.action.executer.TransformActionExecuter.executeImpl(TransformActionExecuter.java:189)

[rivetlogic]

Hi,

Did you check if OpenOffice is running in headless mode? An easy way to check is to see if there is an established connection on port 8100.

Hope this helps,

–Aladdin

[pepperking]

I didn't have open office installed on the Alfresco server only on my workstation.  Problem resolved thanks. Aladdin.  

[mohrmann]

i have the same problem:

i am running Alfresco 2.1 on my server and OO is running in headless mode (listening on port 8100)!!!!

i tried to transform plain text into a pdf, but i get the following error:

Failed to run Actions due to error: No transformation exists between mimetypes text/plain and application/pdf

i tried to transform a pdf into plain text and it worked! but the other way round i always get the error (same problem when i try to convert a word file into pdf)

hope someone can help, thx!