Bug#524108: openoffice.org: all documents open read only from afs filesystem

[Andrew J Perrin <andrew_perrin@unc.edu>]

The same behavior is observed using 3.1.0.

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On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote:

> bts notforwarded 524108
> bts notforwarded 216596
> tag 216596 - wontfix
> forcemerge 524108 216596
> close 216596 1:2.4.1-17
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> Andrew J Perrin wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Apr 2009, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >
> > > > Maybe locking? Please try 3.1, which has some of the loging regressions
> > > > introduced in 3.0 fixed.
> >
> > I will try but OO.o is in so many packages that it's quite difficult to
> > upgrade ad hoc to 3.1.
>
> Not at all. Please try. If it works, tell me so I can close thios bug, as said
> 3.1.0 as said has many locking fixes...
>
> > > And: How does your reported bug relate to ##216596 (open since
> > > 2003, thus still marked as existant in 2.4.1. You claim it worked in
> > > 2.4.1?
> >
> > It looks the same, except that mine worked just fine in 2.4.1. However
>
> OK, so you didn't see the other bug either in some earlier versions?
> I merge them and mark this appropriately.
>
> > the issue reported in
> > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25850 refers to a locking
> > problem on install, not a problem opening documents.
>
> Indeed, but locking problem is locking problem. Especially if the locking daemon
> is not running. Been there for nfs,....
>
> Grüße/Regards,
>
> René
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