RedHat F8 Openoffice 2.3 Says My Personal Settings Are Locked

[rabil]

I'm using the RedHat version of Openoffice 2.3 in F8. I've been using it
since January without any major problems. Now every time I start it, it
warns me that my personal settings are locked. I've looked through them
but don't see any "lock" file to unlock. Also, now when I try to insert
eps files, it doesn't recognize the format - I've been using them and
converting the with ooo without any problem until today.

Any idea on what may be wrong or how to fix it?

Rick B.

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[Patrick O'Callaghan-2]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 10:35 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> I'm using the RedHat version of Openoffice 2.3 in F8. I've been using
> it
> since January without any major problems. Now every time I start it,
> it
> warns me that my personal settings are locked. I've looked through
> them
> but don't see any "lock" file to unlock.

Does it say the settings are locked by another process? If not, it seems
more likely to be a file permissions problem than a locking problem. A
quick look at ~/.openoffice.org2.0 shows no files which aren't writeable
by me, so you could try "chmod -R u+w ~/.openoffice.org2.0"

poc

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[rabil]

On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 11:44 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 10:35 -0400, Rick Bilonick wrote:
> > I'm using the RedHat version of Openoffice 2.3 in F8. I've been using
> > it
> > since January without any major problems. Now every time I start it,
> > it
> > warns me that my personal settings are locked. I've looked through
> > them
> > but don't see any "lock" file to unlock.
>
> Does it say the settings are locked by another process? If not, it seems
> more likely to be a file permissions problem than a locking problem. A
> quick look at ~/.openoffice.org2.0 shows no files which aren't writeable
> by me, so you could try "chmod -R u+w ~/.openoffice.org2.0"
>
> poc
>

The weird thing is the problem disappeared. I did look in
~/.openoffice.org2.0 but could not find a "lock" file. I'm using this on
a laptop. Exiting ooo didn't fix it but it went away after a reboot.

Rick B.

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[Anne Wilson-5]

On Saturday 05 July 2008 00:30:23 Rick Bilonick wrote:
> The weird thing is the problem disappeared. I did look in
> ~/.openoffice.org2.0 but could not find a "lock" file. I'm using this on
> a laptop. Exiting ooo didn't fix it but it went away after a reboot.

The reboot may be just a coincidence.  Well written applications may include a
time-out on a lock.  I've seen that happen when I couldn't find the culprit.

Anne

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