Issue 121473 - Incompatibility with Novell client
Summary: Incompatibility with Novell client
Status: CLOSED NOT_AN_OOO_ISSUE
Alias: None
Product: Installation
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: 3.4.1
Hardware: PC Windows, all
: P3 Blocker (vote)
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Reported: 2012-12-13 15:48 UTC by davide
Modified: 2017-05-20 09:44 UTC (History)
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Description davide 2012-12-13 15:48:54 UTC 
There is a blocking incompatibility between AOO and Novell client on Windows desktop.

When I try to install or execute AOO on Windows running a Novell client, the execution fails.
This doesn't happen if the client is installed but not active (i.e. running without accessing to Novell client).

The bug is well explained here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44588

It seems that LibreOffice, starting from 3.5.2 or 3.5.3, solved the issue.
Comment 1 Massimo Spiller 2013-01-14 17:43:48 UTC 
Hi guys, I opened bug 44588 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44588) and proposed its closure.

We did some more testing and I think we found the real cause (NOT related to Novell Client or OS version).

Our Novell client, during start-up script, was setting a system wide variable called "DATA". We changed now its name to something different (GGMMAA) ... et voilà ... problems disappeared.

I think that in Libreoffice 3.5.3 or later there is no use/check of this variable, while in Apache OpenOffice it is still "used" somehow.

Bye.
Comment 2 Andrea Pescetti 2013-01-14 21:53:22 UTC 
Ah, the infamous $DATA variable... Yes, indeed for some reason setting a variable named DATA may interfere with OpenOffice. It's an old bug that you can find well described here
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg13233.html
and fixed here
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42961

I'm closing this bug report since it doesn't describe the problem. However, I opened a new one about the DATA bug: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121623