Issue 25824 - OOo user setup fails on shared NFS root
Summary: OOo user setup fails on shared NFS root
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: gdhgdh
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Reported: 2004-02-24 11:25 UTC by gdhgdh
Modified: 2004-02-24 14:55 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description gdhgdh 2004-02-24 11:25:44 UTC 
Hi :)

I'm using OOo from Debian sid, and seem to have the same issue as this guy
http://lists.debian.org/debian-openoffice/2003/debian-openoffice-200309/msg00075.html

I have followed bugreports through
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=17517, but I already use
nfs-kernel, and the   

STAR_PROFILE_LOCKING_DISABLED=1  
export STAR_PROFILE_LOCKING_DISABLED 

suggestion made no difference.

In the end I mounted the rootfs with the 'nolock' option and this has cleared
the problem, but I am glad that the rootfs is mounted readonly because I
definately wouldn't have followed this path were it rw!

The Setup_err.txt from the client said "can't open registry file
<fullpath>/types.rdb" even though that path and file exists and is world readable :/

Cheers,
Gavin.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2004-02-24 11:51:36 UTC 
of @ mhu: Any suggestions?
Comment 2 matthias.huetsch 2004-02-24 12:43:13 UTC 
Hi Olaf, Gavin,

Usually (see e.g. issue 19339) this is a matter of system 'misconfiguration', i.e.
the NFS client (and possible the server as well) does not run a NFS 'lockd'
process. Depending on kernel and system configuration, this can either be builtin
'[lockd]' (as shown by 'ps') (kernel configured with CONFIG_LOCKD*=y) or an
external '/sbin/rpc.lockd' (a 'friend' of '/sbin/rpc.statd'). On my Debian Woody,
all this is taken care of in '/etc/init.d/nfs-common'.

Hope that helps,
Matthias
Comment 3 matthias.huetsch 2004-02-24 12:43:48 UTC 
Resolving as 'works for me'...
Comment 4 gdhgdh 2004-02-24 14:55:52 UTC 
Ah cool. That uncovered quite a subtle error...

As I PXE-boot, I use an initrd to set the system up for the NFS-root.. and as
part of that, it runs a statically-linked 'mount' before the real 'init' gets going.

So, when the real 'init' takes over, the NFS-root *is* mounted fine, but isn't
listed in the output of a 'mount' command, and hence the kernel [lockd] does not
run. I added the nfsroot into the /etc/fstab of the initrd image (which gets
used in favour of the NFSroot one...) and the exports get re-mounted later in
the boot sequence.

All is well :)

Cheers,
Gavin.