Could the reporter please look at openoffice issuezilla issue number 25824 ? http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25824 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17517 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19339There is a discussion about NFS locks and these links to related issues which may provide a solution or suggest a duplicate