Docsplit on fedora x86_64

[silkmoth]

I installed docsplit on fedora with the instructions in the documentation page http://documentcloud.github.com/docsplit . I created a symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/lib64/openoffice.org3 /usr/lib/openoffice

but after that, docsplit works well except when i want to use the funtionalities of openoffice: for example docsplit text my_file.odt . Here is the error message:

Exception in thread "main" org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeException: failed to start and connect
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.startAndWait(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:61)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.PooledOfficeManager.start(PooledOfficeManager.java:102)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ProcessPoolOfficeManager.start(ProcessPoolOfficeManager.java:59)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.cli.Convert.main(Convert.java:98)
Caused by: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeException: could not establish connection
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerGet(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.get(Unknown Source)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.startAndWait(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:59)
... 3 more
Caused by: org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeException: could not establish connection
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.doStartProcessAndConnect(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:123)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.access$000(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:31)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess$1.run(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:55)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.RetryTimeoutException: java.net.ConnectException: connection failed: 'socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002,tcpNoDelay=1'; java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.Retryable.execute(Retryable.java:48)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.Retryable.execute(Retryable.java:31)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess.doStartProcessAndConnect(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:113)
... 8 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: connection failed: 'socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002,tcpNoDelay=1';  java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.OfficeConnection.connect(OfficeConnection.java:101)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.ManagedOfficeProcess$6.attempt(ManagedOfficeProcess.java:116)
at org.artofsolving.jodconverter.office.Retryable.execute(Retryable.java:41)
... 10 more

I have tested the installation on ubuntu 10.10 and everything works. On Fedora there is no package/rpm for openoffice.org-java-common so i have unpacked a openoffice.org-java-comon.deb and added the missing files on the fedora system but i still have the same issue. Furthermore the version of Open Office is 3.2 on Ubuntu and 3.3 on Fedora. Is it related with the openoffice version ?

Please don't tell me to only use ubuntu.

Thanks (Sorry for my english)

[silkmoth]

After another tests it seems that docsplit is unable to launch the openoffice headless. if i launch

docsplit text my_file.odt

and while it is running launch this command:

soffice.bin -headless -accept="socket,host=127.0.0.1,port=2002;urp;"

the docsplit command work.

Have you got any ideas?

[jashkenas]

I'm afraid I don't have any ideas -- sorry about that. You might want to try debugging it by using JODConverter alone?