lomanager doesn't do anything - SOLVED

[gizmo-au]

I am having trouble with running lomanager. After installing the updates, lomanager has appeared in the menu. I already have Open Office installed. I ran lomanager, an entry appeared on the task list for about one second, then disappeared. I expected lomanager to run and update my openoffice installation into LibreOffice, is that what it should do?

Thanks

[menotu]

I am having trouble with running lomanager. After installing the updates, lomanager has appeared in the menu. I already have Open Office installed. I ran lomanager, an entry appeared on the task list for about one second, then disappeared. I expected lomanager to run and update my openoffice installation into LibreOffice, is that what it should do?

Thanks

It will remove OpenOffice and replace it with LibreOffice.

[TerryN]

If it is failing to start from the GUI you could try opening a terminal window and typing lomanager at the command prompt.  Hopefully, it will run but if not it should report an error saying why.

[pinoc]

I am having trouble with running lomanager. After installing the updates, lomanager has appeared in the menu. I already have Open Office installed. I ran lomanager, an entry appeared on the task list for about one second, then disappeared. I expected lomanager to run and update my openoffice installation into LibreOffice, is that what it should do?

Thanks

Hi gizmo-au,
if you had many updates, you may need to reboot. Do it anyway, or at least try to start with a fresh session, meaning logout and login again. Then run lomanager, if it still does not show up, run lomanager from a terminal and post the results here. Please also check here first, and provide info on which desktop you use (KDE, Gnome, etc), which version of lomanager you have installed, etc. The more detailed info you provide the more likely we will be able to help.
regards,
-p.

[AndrzejL]

Are You fully upgraded? If yes:

Open console.

Type in:

su [ENTER]
root's password [ENTER]
lomanager [ENTER]

See if that starts up the install process or throws some errors at You that You can use to determine why is it not working.

If no:

Read the Jaydot link from my signature.

Hope this helps.

Andy

[gizmo-au]

Thanks for the suggestion to run lomanager from a terminal as root. It worked.

I got some error messages, but the lomanager process marched on and it all worked OK.

the messages:

"tried to connect to session manager, authentication rejected, reason: none of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based  authentication failed.'  and  "error: failed to stat /home/xxxx.gvfs: permission denied."

anyway, it is all working fine now. Thanks.

[pinoc]

Thanks for the suggestion to run lomanager from a terminal as root. It worked.

I got some error messages, but the lomanager process marched on and it all worked OK.

the messages:

"tried to connect to session manager, authentication rejected, reason: none of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based  authentication failed.'  and  "error: failed to stat /home/xxxx.gvfs: permission denied."

anyway, it is all working fine now. Thanks.

these messages are irrelevant and not really errors. Now that you have LO you could back to your original post and mark it solved.
regards,
-p