OpenOffice connection lost periodically

[nadaoneal]

Does anyone else find that periodically, the OpenOffice connection is lost?

16:39:00,009 ERROR [org.alfresco.util.OpenOfficeConnectionTester] The OpenOffice connection has been lost.

I have changed tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco-global.properties to include ooo.enabled=true, and the ooo.exe path there is correct, but still I find that randomly, OpenOffice will just stop running, and while Alfresco notices this, it doesn't do anything about it. And then everyone's document uploads fail to produce thumbnails.

As a kludgy fix, I'm using a once-every-five-minutes cron job (*/5 * * * * /path/to/cronjob), which I'll share below in case it's useful to anyone, but does anyone have a more elegant solution?

I'm running 3.4.d on CentOS 5.5, x64, with the bundled OpenOffice.

#!/bin/sh

running=`ps aux | grep "/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/program/soffice.bi[n]" | wc -l`

if [ $running != 0 ];
then
/usr/bin/logger  "OpenOffice running at $(date +'%F %H:%M')"
else
/usr/bin/logger  "OpenOffice restarted at $(date +'%F %H:%M')"
/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/scripts/openoffice_ctl.sh
fi‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

(Obviously, change /opt/alfresco-3.4.d to the correct path for your system. The [n] prevents the grep statement from matching itself. )

Thanks!

[ekimnosneb]

I've just started seeing this too.  I was planning to use your script as a work-around, but found that the "/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/scripts/openoffice_ctl.sh" script will actually only start openoffice if an instance isn't running, so instead I'm going to run the following directly in cron:

/opt/alfresco-3.4.d/openoffice/scripts/openoffice_ctl.sh start‍