Re: help needed: after recent dist-upgrade, openoffice 2.0.4rc3-1 hangs with FUTEX_WAIT

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque@cox.net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:

> Michael Vishchers wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > after I dist-upgraded my system a couple of days ago, I noticed that the
> > new openoffice 2.0.4 hangs on opening files if called from a user whose
> > home directory is NFS mounted.
> >
> > I've tried to downgrade openoffice back to 2.0.3-6 and even started an
> > older kernel (currently I'm running 2.6.16-2-686), but that did not
> > help. Also removal of .openoffice-org2 and .sversionrc made no 
> > difference.
> >
> > Funny thing is that a user with a local home directory has no problem
> > opening the same file.
> >
> > The hanging oowriter process is waiting on an futex(0x813c3e0,
> > FUTEX_WAIT, 2, NULL
> >
> > I've just convinced my kids that debian and openoffice are far better
> > than the windows stuff - hope that doesn't change.
> >
> > (And yes, I've searched through the mailing lists at
> > openoffice.debian.net, and unfortunately couldn't find a solution to the
> > problem).
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >  
> Have you searched the mailing list?  On google groups (in the group 
> linux.debian.user) you can search for for openoffice.  Here's what I 
> found:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.user/search?group=linux.debian.user&q=openoffice&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group 
>
>
> Pay specific attention to posts about downgrading.
>
> HTH.
Oops, I'm sorry.  I misread your e-mail. You probably already downgraded 
and my suggestion has nothing to do with your problem.  Good luck.

--
Sincerely
Jose Alburquerque