[svlug] SOLVED - OpenOffice 2.0 can't write to mounted drives

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Joe Buck (Joe.Buck at synopsys.COM):

> It seems to me that if there's a bug, it's Debian-specific.

More like a meatspace problem in certain Debian users' neocortexes, that
makes them totally screw up their NFS clients _and_ eschew reading the
Debian OpenOffice.org package's Readme.  Quoting:

If you are using NFS mounted file systems, you should make sure that
locking is functioning:

  'Make sure NFS lockd is running on the client, or mount the NFS export which
  contains /usr with the 'nolock' option.
  
  If /usr gets mounted from an initrd, check 'ps' output once the system is
  fully booted to ensure that you see a [lockd] kernel process, or an
  'rpc.lockd' userspace process. 
  
  If not, just issue your mount command again (no need to even -o remount it
  seems!) and run /etc/init.d/nfs-common restart.' (Thanks to Gavin Hamill)

  See this mailing list thread for more information:
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2004/debian-openoffice-200402/msg00223.html

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