Re: [Hampshire] LibreOffice not working over SSH for one use…

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Author: James Courtier-Dutton
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To: adam.trickett, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
CC: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] LibreOffice not working over SSH for one user but not another
On Apr 26, 2014 3:21 PM, "Dr A. J. Trickett" <adam.trickett@???>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange one for you.
>
> On box "F" the local user "V" can run LibreOffice (Debian stable) without

a
> problem.
>
> If user "A" SSH into the box "F" from "W" or "M" and runs any LibreOffice
> application back down the tunnel they work perfectly well.
>
> If user "V" tries to do the same then LibreOffice starts but after about 1
> second of any application (e.g. writer) running it vanishes without trace.
> User "V" has no problem running other applications on "F" and having them
> display on box "M".
>
> Annoyingly nothing shows up on the command line that started LibreOffice,
> there is no horrible string of errors or anything else.
>
> I know that user "V" can connect and X forwarding is working fine.
>
> I know that LibreOffice is correctly working and will run over an X/SSH

tunnel
> as user "A" can do that between the same boxes.
>
> As far as I can tell there is nothing strange in the environment of user

"V"
> on either box (client or server).
>
> Any suggestions...?
>

Look in "dmesg"
It should have a line saying why the application stopped unexpectedly.
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