Re: OpenOffice failure

[Vittorio <vdemart@supereva.it>]

Javier Bertoli [debian-user] <06/09/02 16:20 -0300>:
> On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Phillip Hofmeister wrote:
> 
> > All,
> >
> > For some reason when I upgraded to syslog-ng some time ago (removing
> > sysklogd) my kern.log stopped showing.  My syslog-ng.conf file seems to
> > include a kern.log
> 
> 	Yep. That happened to me too. Somebody, somewhere, sometime,
> posted a solution that helped me to get it working back again.
> 
> 	All you need to do is to change the "source" line for the kernel
> log in syslog-ng.conf:
> 
> 		source src { unix-dgram("/dev/log"); internal(); };
> 
> 	Needs to be changed to
> 
> 		source src {
> 		    internal();
> 		    unix-stream("/dev/log");
> 		    file("/proc/kmsg");
> 		};
> 
> 	And kill HUP syslog-ng (or restart it, whatever). And that's it.
> 
> > Can anyone think why it would not be showing anything in kern.log?
> 
> 	Nop. Don't know. Notice, however, that it changes from a dgram to
> a stream socket type. Perhaps the reason is there:
> 
> 	From syslog-ng.conf:
> 
>        * unix-dgram <filename> - reads messages  from  the  given
>        AF_UNIX, SOCK_DGRAM socket (BSDi style)
> 
>        *  unix-stream  <filename> - reads messages from the given
>        AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM socket (Linux style)
> 
> 	Anyway, it should work. Hope this helps.
> 
> 	Saludos
> 
> 					Javier
> 

Friends (and to whom it may concern), I solved my problem! Leafing
through OpenOffice mailing lists I've found that it is enough to add

unset SESSION_MANAGER


at the beginning of /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice file.