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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:50:38 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Why StarOffice continuously restarted setup - the answer
Message-ID:  <20000316185038.B7551@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <38D18963.151086DC@bellatlantic.net>; from babkin@bellatlantic.net on Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:51PM -0500
References:  <38D18963.151086DC@bellatlantic.net>

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:51PM -0500, Sergey Babkin wrote:
> A while ago I tried to install StarOffice and had
> a problem that every time I tried to start it it went
> into setup again and again. I've asked about this
> in -hackers and found that some people had the same
> problem but nobody has a solution. Well, I've found that
> solution today and in case anyone else hits that problem,
> here it is: I'm using the July '99 4.0-SNAPSHOT and
> in that snapshot reading /proc/NNN/cmdline returns
> a line with '\n' on the end. StarOffice tried to open
> a file with that name (its own code) and, of course, failed.
> Removing that '\n' in procfs fixed the things. One
> more catch is that the StarOffice bin directory must be in
> the path, otherwise the same problem follows.
> 
> Both of these problems seem to be already fixed in -current.

See http://www.br.freebsd.org/staroffice.html

This page describes the problems causing setup to run again and again.

-- Brooks

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