On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> I just upgraded OpenOffice on my wifes Mandriva 2007.1 computer (to OO > 2.1). > Now she can no longer save documents on a partition mounted as NFS (the > partition is on my machine). This is specific to OO. Other applications can > write to the drive, so it's not a permission problem (but some OO setting > that I may have screwed up). > > The error message is: > > Error saving he document > General Error > General input/output error > > Sometimes I also get: > error during shared access > > > I looked at all the confguration settings but didn't find anything. Any > ideas > what I'm missing? > I have a vague memory of OOo behaving like that on NFS mounts, many years ago, and the problem being locking. Locking on NFS is tricky, as it's an advisory more than a true lock. If memory serves me right, the problem was that OOo tried to do a "true lock" which was impossible, and thus had problem saving documents and temporary files. Unfortunately, I don't remember how I solved it (NFS option? OOo configuration?) - but I hope the pointer can help. (Of course, for starters, make sure that the nfs locking daemon is indeed running...) -- Shimi
