Source file cannot be read. Unsupported URL

[adityar7]

I'm trying to run unoconv to convert documents remotely.

If I run both the listener and the client on the same machine, everything works fine. However, if I run the listener of a different machine then I get the following error:

$ unoconv -s 192.168.1.11 -p 2002 -n -vvv test.doc 
Verbosity set to level 3
Using office base path: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents
Using office binary path: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS
DEBUG: Connection type: socket,host=192.168.1.11,port=2002;urp;StarOffice.ComponentContext
Input file: test.doc
UNO IllegalArgument during import phase:
Source file cannot be read. Unsupported URL <file:///Users/abc/test.doc>: ""

The listener is run like so.

$ ./unoconv --listener -s 192.168.1.11 -p 2002 -vvv
Verbosity set to level 3
Using office base path: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents
Using office binary path: /Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS
Start listener on 192.168.1.11:2002

I have tried several versions of LibreOffice in the 3.5 and 3.6 families as well as with several different documents and always run into this issue. I am running the master branch of unoconv. Both machines are Mac OS X 10.7 but I have tried Ubuntu as well. There is no firewall and the file permissions are 777.

Any idea what could be going on?

As a last resort I'll have to wrap the listener inside my own tcp service script, but the in-built service would be ideal.

[dagwieers]

Yes, remote conversions only work with shared storage mounted on exactly the same place on both local and remote systems.

If this doesn't work, feel free to reopen this issue.

[adityar7]

Ah, thanks a ton for the quick reply!

[FREEZX]

I think this should be mentioned in the documentation.
Also, a mechanism for transferring data between the client and server other than shared storage would be awesome.

[dagwieers]

@FREEZX I accept pull requests, also for documentation updates.

The feature request should be targeted to LibreOffice/OpenOffice, unoconv falls back on the functionality both provide to us.

[adityar7]

For those wondering how to do this easily: since unoconv relies on the LibreOffice functionality and is unlikely to have this feature, we ended up writing a simple web app that exposes unoconv functionality.

[geekdenz]

I'm using version 0.6 and getting this error on Ubuntu Server 12.04 and up till now I was unable to solve this.

I went to https://github.com/dagwieers/unoconv/blob/0.6/unoconv#L843
and inserted a test output there:
print 'URL ::%s::' % inputurl
and the line after that, but in the line after

document = self.desktop.loadComponentFromURL( inputurl , "_blank", 0, inputprops )

I wasn't getting the output. So, it seems it's failing on that.

I tried putting the .doc file into /tmp as well. Also, I tried it on my Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop and everything works as expected, but I need it running on the server.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

[notedit]

i'm using version 0.6, i got this error too, i have spend three hours on this.

[notedit]

reinstall unoconv and libreoffice, and restart fix this

[dagwieers]

Thanks for the feedback.
Not sure what I can do about this though :-/