Re: Cannot print from StarOffice
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On Sat, 4 Sep 1999, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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> Dirk> I am at wit's end here -- I have a `network' installation of
> Dirk> StarOffice 5.1 here at home for use by myself and my wife. It works
> Dirk> fine, but just won't print. I even re-downloaded 5.1 again, and
> Dirk> reinstalled, but no luck. The machine is current potato with lpd and
> Dirk> magicfilter installed and working.
Ditto here. Also, SO5.1 used to work and print fine with an older version
of potato.
> Julio> It seems that some StarOffice functionalities hang when running over
> Julio> potato with libc6 2.1. It does work fine with slink (libc6 2.0.7)
> Julio> indeed.
>
> Yes, that's like it. Whenever it attempts to print, it hangs and starts
> several soffice.bin processes which I have to kill hard (kill -9, sometime
> even xkill).
After i kill it using the pulldown menu in WindowMaker, ps ax still
shows three SO-related threads:
4075 ? D 0:05 /usr/local/staroffice51/bin/soffice.bin
4090 ? Z 0:00 [soffice.bin <defunct>]
4113 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/staroffice51/bin/soffice.bin
Note number 4090 is zombied. Combining this with the following facts:
* SO uses a system(3) call for printing (which was a problem when trying
to trick 5.01 into working, since just adjusting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to
point to glibc 2.0.7 killed sh, so no printing),
* SO probably uses threads, although i don't know how to be sure of this
with no source. I don't see it forking all those processes... i do see
a clone(2) call in the strace, which is suggestive.
* Bug #43549 (http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/43/43549.html)
> So then it's now me but rather glibc and staroffice?
glibc, yeah... Guess that's why glibc 2.1.2 is still in prerelease.
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