We recently switched from Centos 7 to Alma 9 as the OS for our HCL Connections test systems. The only issue we had, HCL Docs Conversion would not work. From the Conversions SystemOut.log we got these messages:<\/p>\n
NoConnectException – soffice connection is unavailable : \/opt\/Conversion\/data\/temp\/source-73e01698-ec31-48fa-90c3-1a435c523825\/concord1703062699778tmp
\ncom.sun.star.connection.NoConnectException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)….<\/p>\n
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A short check on the server with ps -eo pid,time,args | grep office<\/em><\/strong> revealed that soffice was missing.<\/p>\n Checking the Conversion\/sym_monitor\/error.log, soffice.bin was complaining about\u00a0 a missing library: libcrypt.so.1<\/p>\n After installing this library, the soffice.bin tasks appeared suddenly.<\/p>\n dnf provides libcrypt.so.1 <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We recently switched from Centos 7 to Alma 9 as the OS for our HCL Connections test systems. The only<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,80],"tags":[116,28,78,115,114,113],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-docs","tag-alma-9","tag-docs","tag-docs-2-0-2","tag-installation","tag-libcrypt","tag-libcrypt-so-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
\ndnf install libxcrypt-compat-4.4.18-3.el9.i686<\/p>\n