Bug 36852 - FILEOPEN hard lock when opening files from a remote NFS volume
Summary: FILEOPEN hard lock when opening files from a remote NFS volume
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: high major
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: 46157 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2011-05-04 12:00 UTC by Pascal
Modified: 2016-01-19 11:58 UTC (History)
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Description Pascal 2011-05-04 12:00:37 UTC
The problem is on opening a file on an NFS volume, not on save.

Openoffice.org in karmic did not worked well either but no hard lock was observed. It was unable to open nfs files R/W because it was always complaining  that nfs files are locked by 'unknown' (another known bug of ooo on NFS). Since Lucid ooo had the lock problem (bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/577038 on launchpad, bug http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=113330 on ooo)

No other application have this problem on NFS.

nfs server is synology ds207+ :

Export :
/volume1/PC        192.168.0.1(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure_locks,anonuid=0,anongid=0)

OS: 
Linux synology 2.6.15 #1354 Sat Oct 23 01:49:30 CST 2010 armv5tejl GNU/Linux synology_88f5281_207+

Kubuntu natty:
mount: 
synology:/volume1/PC on /mnt/pc type nfs (rw,addr=192.168.0.49)


fstab: 
synology:/volume1/PC /mnt/pc  nfs _netdev,nouser,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid   0  0


just for information, opening files on an iSCSI share is working, so the problem is really tight to NFS

Also as noted, a workaround is opening nfs files directly with the command
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash.bin -writer "<path to file on nfs share>"

And finally note that the fileselector is sometimes relly sllllloooowwww to discover files on local disks, but when we open start libreoffice with /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash.bin -writer, then we have no problem to navigate quickly among the file system with the fileselector.

All this seems linked to settings in the libreoffice launch script./usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
Comment 1 Muthu 2011-05-05 00:07:14 UTC
Fridrich-> more info? Thanks!
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2011-09-15 06:06:26 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)

> 
> just for information, opening files on an iSCSI share is working, so the
> problem is really tight to NFS
> 


FWIW, there is what appears to be an identical problem on AFS mounted shares, see bug 40907


Alex
Comment 3 Pascal 2011-09-15 10:56:42 UTC
still no fix for that bug ? It renders libreoffice unusable in a shared environnement
Comment 4 Eric 2011-12-24 09:41:07 UTC
This has been a problem for me ever since I started using Libre Office, which is about 2 years, I think. To fix it, I go into the soffice script and comment out everything from "#adjust environment" through the "fi" just before "if [ -z "$SAL_NOOPENGL" ]; then" (do not comment out this last line, I include it only as a reference.)

I use recent versions of Ubuntu, such as 11.04, and Libre Office, as well as OpenOffice (which has the same bug) on various computers, attached to a Synology NAS appliance on which I'm using NFS to share files. The problem is evident on all these computers. 

I also use LibreOffice on Windows and don't notice this problem when accessing files from the Samba service on the NAS.
Comment 5 Pascal 2012-01-03 03:01:05 UTC
still valid in 3.4.4 !
Comment 6 Chris Peñalver 2012-01-03 06:08:52 UTC
Pascal, please do not toggle the version. For more on this please see: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport_Details#Version
Comment 7 h.goebel 2012-05-23 03:53:41 UTC
This seams to be related or even a duplicate to Bug 46157. The other ticket has screenshots.
Comment 8 h.goebel 2012-05-23 04:36:55 UTC
I can confirm this is related to locking - at least on my system:

Loading/saving fails if the share is mounted using the "lock" option, but works
if the share is mounted with "nolock".

See bug 50276 comment 2 for details.
Comment 9 h.goebel 2012-05-23 04:44:30 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)

> Since Lucid ooo had the lock problem (bug
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/577038 on launchpad, bug

I can confirm: When not setting "SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING" at all in `soffice`, loading/saving works even if the share is mounted with "lock" enabled.
Comment 10 Björn Michaelsen 2012-06-04 04:39:27 UTC
*** Bug 46157 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Hashem Masoud 2012-08-31 17:09:07 UTC
*** Bug 50276 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:52:23 UTC
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Comment 13 Pascal 2015-01-06 20:44:51 UTC
Bug still present in libreoffice 4.3.3-0ubuntu1 

Same symptoms.

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.10
Release:        14.10
Codename:       utopic
Comment 14 QA Administrators 2016-01-17 20:05:03 UTC
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Comment 15 h.goebel 2016-01-19 11:58:18 UTC
Works for me, even with libreoffice 4.4.7.2.