On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:15:34PM +0100, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
and directories under /var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache were
only readable and writable by root. [...]
Well, writable is give, given it's in a system path. Only root had to
do something here, noone else :)
readable, well, this is how it loks here (clean sid/amd64 chroot + OOo
ü openoffice.org-report-builder):
oot@frodo:/var/spool/openoffice/uno_packages/cache# ls -la
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 16 21:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 16 21:24 ..
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 16 21:29 registry
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Jan 16 21:29 stamp.sys
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 16 21:29 uno_packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12288 Jan 16 21:29 uno_packages.db
[...] I don't know why, I've never
gone there before as far as I know.
Well, it's the extension repository/cache, and you apparently had
extensions installed system-wide (either as root with unopkg --shared
or with packages containing extensions)
I guess that's why only root could run openoffice.org, and noone
Yep.
else, not even a new user (as I just discovered). I deleted
everything under that directory, and it works again for all users.
Bad. You lost all extensions you ever installed system-wide (that includes
some openoffice.org-* packages). I'd do a apt-get install --reinstall of
those...