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

[Skip Evans]

I get this output:

root at Xu-400:/usr/lib/openoffice/program# ps waux | 
grep lockd
root         9  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S< 
   Feb05   0:00 [kblockd/0]
root      3062  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S 
   Feb05   0:00 [lockd]
root     14371  0.0  0.1   2800   752 pts/8    R+ 
   16:03   0:00 grep lockd

Isn't the [lockd] above what they are referring to 
below?

"...check 'ps' output once the system is fully 
booted to ensure that you see a [lockd] kernel 
process..."

Skip



Rick Moen wrote:
> 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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