On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 7:48 PM, Bill Janssen <email@hidden> wrote:
> I'm running a daemon, started by SystemStarter at boot time, and
> running as me (an admin account), which periodically invokes
> OpenOffice's "soffice" binary to convert MS Office docs to PDF. Works
> most of the time, but sometimes OpenOffice crashes with this error
> message:
Likely failing to get a connection to the window server... anything
listed in the console log when it crashes out?
The crash log appears to live under /Library so this application isn't
being truly run as a particular user, at least not in the way it
normally would. As a result I think all bets are off having it work
consistently ... depending on how it was coded / what frameworks it
depends on.
You really should use a launch agent to launch this type of thing in a
users aqua session and not a daemon. Daemons live in the root session
and don't have reliable access to the window server and this software
appears to require such a connection, it is using AppKit for example.
-Shawn
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