Please excuse the duplicate post. I remembered this from OO 1 and went looking on the OO site. Commenting out the line;
export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING in /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice fixes the problem for me. -- Openoffice.org2 cannot write to NFS files https://launchpad.net/bugs/40537 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs