Issue 9568 - "cd Desktop" in .profile totally breaks the entire suite.
Summary: "cd Desktop" in .profile totally breaks the entire suite.
Status: CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.0.1
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: peter911
QA Contact: issues@installation
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Keywords: oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-11-26 22:55 UTC by peter911
Modified: 2004-02-25 21:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description peter911 2002-11-26 22:55:08 UTC 
If someone's login environment files (ie. .profile for sh/bash/ksh) does
a change directory out of the account home, then open office breaks.
In some cases it will pop into the installation dialog on log in
to prompt you to repair/remove the installation.  In others it will simply
spit out  an general error message about all files being saved, and exit.

To reproduce the problem  just put in "cd Desktop" in your .profile and
invoke soffice.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2002-11-28 14:20:46 UTC 
I don't understand what you are doing. Please give me a detailed
step-by-step description.
Comment 2 peter911 2002-11-28 15:24:24 UTC 
log into a linux/unix machine with a windowing environment.
open_office is already installed, functional, and available
to the user (as either a network or workstation install.)

Open a shell window

linux% vi ~/.profile
G
o
cd Desktop<Ret>
<Esc>
ZZ
linux% soffice

Soffice will not start up.
Comment 3 tamblyne 2003-09-21 04:47:51 UTC 
Hi, Peter:  

Please advise if upgrading to the lastest release has resolved this
issue for you.  

Thanks, 

Tam
Comment 4 utomo99 2003-10-07 11:18:59 UTC 
Please try using the latest OpenOffice 1.1 Final , you can download it
from www.openoffice.org
many bug fixes and enhancements since your version and 1.1 Final . If
the problem still happend in 1.1 please report back 
It maybe not yet solve your Issue, but it worth to try.
Comment 5 Joost Andrae 2004-02-25 20:37:07 UTC 
JA: cannot reproduce this in 1.1.0
Comment 6 Joost Andrae 2004-02-25 20:37:18 UTC 
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Comment 7 lohmaier 2004-02-25 21:11:24 UTC 
cannot reproduce either and OOo 1.0.1 is really old you should consider a update.

Furthermore I cannot imagine how a change in one of the files that are only
sourced by a login-shell may influence the behaviour of OOo.

Make sure you don't source ~/.profile from your non-login-shell startup files
(~/.bashrc for bash) as this may cause other problems as well. I couldn't
reproduce the problem though even when I source ~/.prifile with the "cd Desktop"
in my ~/.bashrc ...