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

Hi :)
I think you should NOT be using trying to run as SuperUser by su or sudo or anything.  It should 
work without that but i agree it was a good idea to give it a go to see what happens.  

Can you try adding the tag

-v

or 

--verbose

to see if it gives you more output to explain what is going wrong?  Perhaps something like 

/opt/libreoffice4.0/program/soffice --headless -v --convert-to pdf sample.ppt

I'm not sure if position matters but i think it doesn't.  If it does then i've probably put it in 
the wrong place.  You can find out more about the tags that can be used in Gnu&Linux by just using 
the tag

-h 

or 

--help

Btw the double - and full word seems to be the newer way but not everyone has caught up yet so 
sometimes programs still need the shorter tag or are happy with either.  Its getting less messy 
like that now but it takes time for an evolution like that to ripple outwards.  Machines in remote 
places might be worth holding back from radical upgrades just in case something does go wrong.  
No-one wants to go for a long hike in space just to plug a keyboard in and sit doing coding work.  
Regards from
Tom :)  






> ________________________________
> From: Graham Glass <graham.glass@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 2:57
> Subject: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to always fails silently on Ubuntu
>
> 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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