Issue with named ubuntu server and office listener.

[goatherd]

More of a question rather and posting in hope that someone will find this useful (as I wasted hours on it that seemed stupid in retrospective).

On a server with hostname other than localhost soffice could not fully start in headless mode - or rather it would start and block with no further message.
Subsequent calls to soffice --headless --convert-to ..would do nothing and calls to unoconv in

UNO IllegalArgument during import phase: Source file cannot be read. URL seems to be an unsupported one.

What helped was

ps -A | grep ffice

to kill the running daemon than start it using

unoconv --listener --server=127.0.0.1

May question now would be: Is there any reason to define localhost as the default and not use 127.0.0.1?

Versions used where LibreOffice 3.5.4 and unoconv 0.6 on Ubuntu 12.04 with similar results for 10.04 and unoconv 0.5.

[dagwieers]

No, you are probably right that expecting to have localhost defined (or at least resolvable) may be causing more grieve in some cases than is really necessary. And in fact it could have been the cause for a few reported problems.

So thank you spending^Wwasting a few hours and then reporting back, that's how things get better for everyone :-)