unoconv needs 2 times to connect to LibreOffice

[wursti]

on my machine unoconv needs everytime 2 times to connect to libreoffice.
first time it says:
Error: Unable to connect or start own listener. Aborting.
on second time it is working.
i havo no idea why it doesn't work. it doesn't matter if libreoffice is running or not.

[dagwieers]

Yes, I have noticed that recently as well, have you tried using the -T/--timeout option to see if increasing the timeout helps ?

I am going to revise the code that takes care of spawning openoffice/libreoffice to see what can be improved. One uncommitted change allows to try swapping the python interpreter if this is needed for the pyuno library. But it needs a lot more testing :-/

[dagwieers]

Can you please try the current HEAD ? It has some improvements to how it loads and starts OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and together with LibreOffice 3.4.3 it works more reliable and feels faster.

[rdlugosz]

FWIW I was seeing a similar problem and also one where unoconv would segfault and thus leave an soffice.bin process running. Using HEAD made both issues go away; I had been using the 0.4 release prior to today.

Thx for a useful script!

[dagwieers]

Thank you for the feedback. Maybe it is time to release 0.5 anyway ?

[dagwieers]

I am closing this issue because I believe this is fixed, if you still have an issue please reopen this issue !