Bug#471167: openoffice.org-common: oosplash.bin detaches itself from the calling process
Package: openoffice.org-common
Version: 1:2.3.1-5
Severity: minor
All the OpenOffice.org end-user programs (openoffice, soffice,
oowriter...) call /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice.bin, or
/usr/lib/openoffice/program/oosplash.bin if it exists and is executable.
The latter, oosplash.bin, detaches itself from the calling process, that
ends silently, while OpenOffice.org continues to run as a child of init.
This can be a problem when opening attachements from an email reader.
Some mail readers will save the attachement to a temporary file and spawn
OpenOffice.org to open it. As OpenOffice.org returns almost immediatly,
the reader can think it has been closed, and delete the temporary file.
Then, when OpenOffice.org has ended to start, it cannot find the file it
has been asked to open.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages openoffice.org-common depends on:
ii dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.96.1 Common utilities for spelling dict
ii openoffice.org-style-andromed 1:2.3.1-5 Default symbol style for OpenOffic
Versions of packages openoffice.org-common recommends:
pn openoffice.org-style-crystal <none> (no description available)
pn openoffice.org-style-hicontra <none> (no description available)
pn openoffice.org-style-industri <none> (no description available)
ii openoffice.org-style-tango 1:2.3.1-5 Tango symbol style for OpenOffice.
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