Recovery screen after power intentionially interrupted

[taholmes160]

I Have open office impress running in 4 locations around our office in various Kiosks. As part of our corporate update and security policies, the computers shut down each and every night and reboot -- all good... I also have open office configured to run at startup, and to open the approrprite presentation and auto-run it... also all good -- except that on 1 of the machines, the recovery dialog pops up constantly when it starts. I cannot seem to get it to NOT pop up -- for some reason it doesnt on the others, just this one -- they are all imaged exactly the same from the same image file and the presentations are identical

Any help or input would be appreciated
TIM

[RoryOF]

Startup manually and cancel the recovery. - that should remove an image left after a crash. If it reoccurs, you need to look at your shutdown conditions on the rogue machine. Might the hard disk be slow?

[taholmes160]

Not that I know of -- they are all solid state drives -- ive tried repeatedly canceling the recovery screen - - it helped on the other machines but not on this one -- I believe the reboot is remotely initiated through wake-on-lan type commands and just plain reboots but I am not sure as I am not willing to stay here all night to find out

[RoryOF]

If your reboot closes OpenOffice and then shuts down the machine, add in a short delay between the two processes.

[taholmes160]

It just cuts off the power -- no shut down procedures --

TIM

[Hagar Delest]

Well, that's rather rude as a method!

You can try the --norestore parameter, see: How to stop "auto recovery". Should be the same with AOO.

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[RoryOF]

That is the problem - it leaves the OpenOffice file open and the restart picks up the lock file, which tells OpenOffice that it terminated improperly and it tries to recover the file from a temporary file. My suggestion is that you should consider using a batch file that closes OpenOffice, waits a few seconds to allow for housekeeping, then invokes the power off procedure. Or, you could disable OpenOffice's making of a lock file - Use forum search (top right of forum window) to find out how. I know this is possible byu starting OpenOffice using a specific command line setting.