Bug#185803: marked as done (openoffice.org-debian-files: readlink-related error message during launch of any openoffice application)
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From: Ulrich Scholler <scholler@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de>
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Subject: openoffice.org-debian-files: readlink-related error message during launch of any openoffice application
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Package: openoffice.org-debian-files
Version: 1.0.2-2+1
Severity: normal
running openoffice produces an ugly (albeit apparently harmless) error
message:
bash$ openoffice
readlink: Need exactly one argument.
Try `readlink --help' for more information.
in line 71 of /usr/bin/openoffice readlink is called with the -f option.
this option does not exist in the version of readlink included with
woody. just removing the illegal option fixes it.
regards,
uLI
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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:59:55 +0100
From: Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>
To: Ulrich Scholler <scholler@fnb.tu-darmstadt.de>,
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Subject: Re: Bug#185803: openoffice.org-debian-files: readlink-related error message during launch of any openoffice application
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 10:19:55PM +0100, Ulrich Scholler wrote:
> in line 71 of /usr/bin/openoffice readlink is called with the -f option.
> this option does not exist in the version of readlink included with
> woody. just removing the illegal option fixes it.
That is not the case for a default woody install:
chris@shawn:~$ dchroot
Executing shell in 'woody' chroot.
chris@shawn:~$ readlink -f /bin/sh
/bin/bash
chris@shawn:~$ dpkg -S `which readlink`
debianutils: /bin/readlink
chris@shawn:~$ dpkg -l debianutils | tail -1
ii debianutils 1.16 Miscellaneous utilities specific to Debian.
So, you must have a 'readlink' from somewhere else. Plus, we really do need
the '-f' flag for certain Gnome installs, where the session manager is
actually a symlink instead of the real binary. See the discussion in
debian-openoffice's archives about Gnome session manager.
Chris
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