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

Hi :)
There is not much point in fixing a problem when you don't know what the problem is or where it is 
if there is one.  That's a bit like "pin the tail on the donkey" but without anyone looking to see 
how close you got.  What if, as it turned out, that the file/folder permissions were not the issue? 
 You can chown all you want but now you don't know whether the problem has been solved or not.  

One trouble-shooting technique is to try su or sudo and if it had no effect then you can rule out a 
whole bunch of stuff.  As has happened in this case.  

As Graham says, what would be really nice is to find a log-file or generate one.  Almost all 
commands have a "verbose" tag that does the job.  How can we get more info about what is going 
wrong?

Regards from 
Tom :)






> ________________________________
> From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 18:26
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] --convert-to always fails silently on Ubuntu
>
> On 03/28/2013 01:58 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > It might have made a difference if he didn't have read/write access to the folder or something 
> > dumb like that.  Also it's something quick to try and beats just tearing your hair out.
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
> sudo chown blah to change ownership of the folder - I have to look the 
> exact switches, etc. I have seen this issue crop up occasionally were a 
> folder tree does not have the permissions set to allow something like this.
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Jay Lozier <jslozier@gmail.com>
> > > To: Kieran Peckett <crazyskeggy@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > Sent: Thursday, 28 March 2013, 17:26
> > > Subject: 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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> > > > > Graham,
> > > > >
> > > > > Try the command prefixed with sudo.
> > > > >
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> > > > >
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