libreoffice command line not running 6.3.0.4

[Stephan Bergmann]

On 28/08/2019 12:20, Jerry Geis wrote:
>>There's apparently another instance of soffice.bin already running (for 
>>the same UserInstallation), so this one just passes its cmd line args 
>>(none in this case) to the other instance and exits successfully.
> 
> 
> Thank you -  Where/how does it get this?  I have --nolock on the command line,

--nolock has no influence on that.
> the file show does not exist... /tmp/OSL_PIPE_0_SingleOfficeIPC_53bc4297d6d012e1a744f3977d159334
> 
> and ps ax | grep soffice does not show anything.

Then I'm clueless what's going wrong for you.  That you had captured the 
strace output of an uninteresting soffice.bin (started while another 
soffice.bin was still running) was the most likely explanation for the 
strace output you presented.