Issue 9568

Summary:	"cd Desktop" in .profile totally breaks the entire suite.
Product:	Installation	Reporter:	peter911 <peter.silva>
Component:	code	Assignee:	peter911 <peter.silva>
Status:	CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE	QA Contact:	issues@installation <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, tamblyne
Version:	OOo 1.0.1	Keywords:	oooqa
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description peter911 2002-11-26 22:55:08 UTC

If someone's login environment files (ie. .profile for sh/bash/ksh) does
a change directory out of the account home, then open office breaks.
In some cases it will pop into the installation dialog on log in
to prompt you to repair/remove the installation.  In others it will simply
spit out  an general error message about all files being saved, and exit.

To reproduce the problem  just put in "cd Desktop" in your .profile and
invoke soffice.

Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2002-11-28 14:20:46 UTC

I don't understand what you are doing. Please give me a detailed
step-by-step description.

Comment 2 peter911 2002-11-28 15:24:24 UTC

log into a linux/unix machine with a windowing environment.
open_office is already installed, functional, and available
to the user (as either a network or workstation install.)

Open a shell window

linux% vi ~/.profile
G
o
cd Desktop<Ret>
<Esc>
ZZ
linux% soffice

Soffice will not start up.

Comment 3 tamblyne 2003-09-21 04:47:51 UTC

Hi, Peter:  

Please advise if upgrading to the lastest release has resolved this
issue for you.  

Thanks, 

Tam

Comment 4 utomo99 2003-10-07 11:18:59 UTC

Please try using the latest OpenOffice 1.1 Final , you can download it
from www.openoffice.org
many bug fixes and enhancements since your version and 1.1 Final . If
the problem still happend in 1.1 please report back 
It maybe not yet solve your Issue, but it worth to try.

Comment 5 Joost Andrae 2004-02-25 20:37:07 UTC

JA: cannot reproduce this in 1.1.0

Comment 6 Joost Andrae 2004-02-25 20:37:18 UTC

Comment 7 lohmaier 2004-02-25 21:11:24 UTC

cannot reproduce either and OOo 1.0.1 is really old you should consider a update.

Furthermore I cannot imagine how a change in one of the files that are only
sourced by a login-shell may influence the behaviour of OOo.

Make sure you don't source ~/.profile from your non-login-shell startup files
(~/.bashrc for bash) as this may cause other problems as well. I couldn't
reproduce the problem though even when I source ~/.prifile with the "cd Desktop"
in my ~/.bashrc ...