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hjnenc
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 Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 4:35 pm Post subject: openoffice cannot launch mozilla |
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When openoffice tries to launch the mozilla browser (for example when the menu entry Help -> Registration is selected) an error message is written to stdout: | Quote: | | /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: unknown browser |
and nothing else happens.
The reason seems to be that /usr/bin/mozilla is just a symlink. I could work around this problem with a little script
| Code: | #! /bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/mozilla "$@"
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and changing the settings in menu Tools->Options: OpenOffice.org / External Programs / HTTP to execute this script instead of mozilla.
Anybody else observing this problem? |
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gareth
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| Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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The 'mozilla' file is a link to '/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher'. That file is a script that checks what filename it was called as (e.g. mozilla or firefox etc) and calls the required binary.
Unfortunately, openOffice resolves the symlink name to the 'proper' name before executing it, therefore calls the 'mozilla-launcher' script as that, and not as 'mozilla' or 'firefox' as it should.
The hack that I've carried out is as follows (as root):-
Remove the symlink 'firefox' that points to 'mozilla-launcher'
'cd' into '/usr/libexec' and create a copy of 'mozilla-launcher' called 'firefox'
'cd' to '/usr/bin/' and create a new symlink called 'firefox' pointing to 'usr/libexec/firefox'
Now, when openOffice runs, it resolves the 'firefox' symlink to a scipt called 'firefox'. It finds that it's called 'firefox' instead of 'mozilla-launcher' and carries out the correct action.
Hope this helps, but your answer is probably simpler !!
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hjnenc
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| Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:32 am Post subject: |
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Thanks,
another fix that came to my mind in the meantime is to replace the symlink /usr/bin/mozilla by a hardlink to /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher. As root:
| Code: | cd /usr/bin
rm -f mozilla
ln /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher mozilla |
Hmm, I guess I will stick to my original workaround as it has good potential to survive reinstallations of openoffice or mozilla. |
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martinoc
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tecknojunky
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| Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2005 9:08 am Post subject: |
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Same problem in Poseidon for UML. I have copied the integral script directly in place of the firefox symlink. mozilla-launcher bad design is now fixed  ... until the next emerge of it  . Oh well. I guess it will be time to learn how to use the "provide" feature in Portage, or push hard in the butt of the developpers to make it right. 
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Wawellski
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| Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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I had the same problem but only idea of making new script helped me. Removing symlink and creating new one (symlink or hardlink) doesn't solve the problem in my case. Anyway hyperlinks now work fine in my OOo.
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