Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to always fails silently on Ubuntu

Keieran

I missed that last night - good catch

On 03/28/2013 12:51 PM, Kieran Peckett wrote:
> How would that make a difference? Isn't that what he means when he
> said it wouldn't work as SU? - either that or he ran "sudo su" before
> running the command, so I doubt that that is th problem.
>
> On 28/03/2013, Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 03/27/2013 10:57 PM, Graham Glass wrote:
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > I just downloaded libreoffice 4 and installed it on a Mac (Lion) and
> > > Linux
> > > (Ubuntu). On the Mac, everything works exactly as I expected, and I can
> > > easily convert documents to pdfs using the command line tool like this:
> > >
> > > /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless
> > > --convert-to
> > > pdf sample.ppt
> > >
> > > However, on Unbuntu, when I execute the equivalent command, it always
> > > fails
> > > quickly and silently with exit code 77 (Permission denied).
> > >
> > > /opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice --headless --convert-to pdf
> > > sample.ppt
> > >
> > > This failure happens regardless of whether I am a regular user or
> > > superuser.
> > > I am not running libreoffice via a user interface, and this command is
> > > being
> > > executed on an Amazon EC2 headless machine.
> > >
> > > Can someone offer any advice, either a method to get more error
> > > information
> > > (such as a log file or a verbose flag) so I can figure out what's going
> > > on?
> > > I'm sure it's a simple issue, but right now the lack of error reporting
> > > is
> > > making it hard to get the issue resolved.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Graham
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
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> > > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> > Graham,
> >
> > Try the command prefixed with sudo.
> >
> > --
> > Jay Lozier
> > jslozier@gmail.com
> >
> >
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