[Libreoffice] Cannot save .ods and .odt files

[Francois Tigeot]

On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 10:26:56AM -0500, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> >
> >truss is the strace equivalent but it stops printing anything after
> >the initial LibO launch. There's nothing shown when I save a file.
> 
> Does truss have the ability to follow child processes?  It's been 
> awhile, but I believe strace has this capability via -ff and -o.  You'll 

It should, but I found a much better way: just run the tracing program
at the right time by attaching it to the soffice.bin process

$ truss -p <pid> -o trace.log

> In other words, LO forks itself a number of times, which is why when you 
> run it from the command line without backgrounding it, it returns 
> control to the shell almost immediately.

I figured it out after Michael's mail.
I'll try to focus on reducing the number of poll() calls for now, the traces
will be much more useful without the noise.

ATB,

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Francois Tigeot