Many thanks! I keep getting distracted to do other jobs so I still haven't got back to installing and configuring alfresco but this detail is really helpful. Should be a sticky! Very helpful indeed! 
In the mean time, I was able to figure out what my problem was related to: OpenOffice.
I had OO 2.4 from ubuntu 8.04 server official repos not working, next I tried OO 3.0.1 from launchpad repos and still the same exception (I swear I purged to death all oo-related packages…even non-related :mrgreen
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To make it short, I cleansed all and restarted from the beginning, this time with official OO.org 3.0.1 X86_64 DEBs.
I installed them like normal debs and still the exception
here's my exceptional exception…
here's my tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/bootstrap/openoffice-startup-context.xml
I am sure I can write with the alfresco user inside /usr/lib/openoffice, inside the "oouser" and inside "dir.root" because I tried touch and vi with test files.
I had OO 2.4 from ubuntu 8.04 server official repos not working, next I tried OO 3.0.1 from launchpad repos and still the same exception (I swear I purged to death all oo-related packages…even non-related :mrgreen
.To make it short, I cleansed all and restarted from the beginning, this time with official OO.org 3.0.1 X86_64 DEBs.
I installed them like normal debs and still the exception
here's my exceptional exception…
00:19:08,892 INFO [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework
00:19:29,819 INFO [org.alfresco.config.xml.XMLConfigService$PropertyConfigurer] Loading properties file from class path resource [alfresco/file-servers.properties]
00:19:43,926 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] Schema managed by database dialect org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect.
00:19:44,495 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.domain.schema.SchemaBootstrap] No changes were made to the schema.
00:19:47,203 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.admin.ConfigurationChecker] The Alfresco root data directory ('dir.root') is: /media/alfresco/alf_data
00:19:47,260 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] Checking for patches to apply …
00:19:47,773 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.admin.patch.PatchExecuter] No patches were required.
00:19:47,778 INFO [org.alfresco.repo.module.ModuleServiceImpl] Found 0 module(s).
00:19:48,623 ERROR [org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader] Context initialization failed
net.sf.jooreports.openoffice.connection.OpenOfficeException: connection failed: socket,host=localhost,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1; com.sun.star.lang.DisposedException: java.io.IOException: com.sun.star.io.IOException: EOF reached - socket,host=localhost,port=8100,tcpNoDelay=1,localHost=localhost,localPort=34467,peerHost=localhost,peerPort=8100
at net.sf.jooreports.openoffice.connection.AbstractOpenOfficeConnection.connect(AbstractOpenOfficeConnection.java:77)
at org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester.testAndConnect(OpenOfficeConnectionTester.java:157)
at org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester.checkConnection(OpenOfficeConnectionTester.java:128)
at org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester.onBootstrap(OpenOfficeConnectionTester.java:101)
at org.alfresco.util.AbstractLifecycleBean.onApplicationEvent(AbstractLifecycleBean.java:62)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster$1.run(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:77)
at org.springframework.core.task.SyncTaskExecutor.execute(SyncTaskExecutor.java:49)
at org.springframework.context.event.SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.multicastEvent(SimpleApplicationEventMulticaster.java:75)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.publishEvent(AbstractApplicationContext.java:246)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:355)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:244)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:187)
at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:49)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3843)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4342)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:830)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:490)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1149)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:578)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
00:19:55,314 INFO [org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 67 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 71 URLs
00:19:55,316 INFO [org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised Presentation Web Script Container (in 638.5923ms)
00:20:56,440 INFO [org.alfresco.web.scripts.DeclarativeRegistry] Registered 101 Web Scripts (+0 failed), 105 URLs
00:20:56,440 INFO [org.alfresco.web.scripts.AbstractRuntimeContainer] Initialised WebFramework Web Script Container (in 61093.133ms)
00:20:56,541 INFO [org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper] Successfully Initialized Web Framework
here's my tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/bootstrap/openoffice-startup-context.xml
<list>
<value>${ooo.exe}</value>
<value>-accept=socket,host=localhost,port=8100;urp;StarOffice.ServiceManager</value>
<value>-env:UserInstallation=file:///${ooo.user}</value>
<value>-nologo</value>
<value>-headless</value>
<value>-nofirststartwizard</value>
<value>-nocrashrep</value>
<value>-norestore</value>
</list>
I am sure I can write with the alfresco user inside /usr/lib/openoffice, inside the "oouser" and inside "dir.root" because I tried touch and vi with test files.
