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ninian

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[workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

Am running fully-updated 64-bit Arch with: libreoffice-fresh 5.0.1-1 and libreoffice-fresh-en-GB 5.0.1-1
Have found that LibreOffice Writer and Calc (at least) crash almost immediately after opening. All I need to do is create a new document, select all its text or cells and make a change to the font used. On the next click of the mouse, LibreOffice quits without warning.
Found these segfaults from journalctl:

kernel: soffice.bin[812]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f0ee0bf1ec1 sp 00007ffe8c64b040 error 4 in libvclplug_gtk3lo.so[7f0ee0bb8000+7c000]
kernel: soffice.bin[848]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f922a147ec1 sp 00007fff66a436e0 error 4 in libvclplug_gtk3lo.so[7f922a10e000+7c000]

Anyone else experiencing this dramatic failure?

Edit: version 5.0.0 does not show the same problem, as far as I have tested

Last edited by ninian (2015-08-28 17:49:57)

MatterCloud

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Registered: 2014-02-07

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

I just did an -Syu, and both Writer and Calc are working fine here with the same version of LibreOffice, though I don't have the -en-GB package installed.

ninian

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

I just did an -Syu, and both Writer and Calc are working fine here with the same version of LibreOffice, though I don't have the -en-GB package installed.

Thanks for your reply.
I have tried the 5.0.1 package on its own, without the -en-GB extra package, and it still crashes in the same way.
5.0.0 works fine with or without its corresponding -en-GB package.

Narga

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Registered: 2011-10-06

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

I had same problem but LibreOffice always crash for a period of time without any error.

V1del

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

If it segfaults because of GTK3 then it may help to switch to another backend: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice#Theme

stronnag

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Registered: 2011-01-25

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

works fine here, x86_64, en_GB

ninian

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

If it segfaults because of GTK3 then it may help to switch to another backend: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice#Theme

@V1del Thank you! Seems I have fallen under the curse of GTK3 once again ...

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk3

causes the crash, but this seems to work fine:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk

so I will mark this problem as 'workaround' for now.

Edit: 'workaround' rather than 'solved'

Last edited by ninian (2015-08-28 17:50:36)

Roken

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

I tried to reproduce, and couldn't. You have an issue elsewhere in your system.

EDIT. Sorry, should have read the whole thread - I see you have narrowed it down.

Last edited by Roken (2015-08-28 20:17:39)

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wedeluxe

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

Arch Linux 64-bit
extra/libreoffice-fresh 5.0.1-1
GNOME 3.16.2 (Global Dark Theme turned on)

I can confirm this behaviour.
LibreOffice Writer crashes after using it a couple of seconds.

The workaround that helped:

+ Switching the backend to gtk – as indicated in this thread.
+ Restarting the system

Last edited by wedeluxe (2015-09-29 18:59:20)

mapintar

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Registered: 2010-04-17

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

Libreoffice-fresh and libreoffice-still currently used in Arch are problematic (crash, artefacts, etc.). I use a lot libreoffice , and the only solution was to recompile and disable some features.

See my config in PKGBUILD:

 		--enable-split-app-modules
		--with-parallelism=5
		--with-external-tar="${srcdir}/ext_sources"
 		--disable-fetch-external
		--disable-verbose
		--enable-release-build
		 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
		--libdir=/usr/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man
		--with-lang="pt-BR"
		--disable-crashdump
		--disable-avahi
		--enable-dbus
		 --disable-evolution2
		--disable-gio
		--disable-gnome-vfs
 		--disable-kde
		--disable-kde4
		--disable-gtk3
		 --disable-gstreamer-0-10
		--disable-gconf
		--disable-lockdown
		--enable-openssl
		--disable-odk
		--enable-orcus
 		--enable-python=system
		--disable-scripting-beanshell
		--disable-scripting-javascript
 		--disable-telepathy
		--disable-ext-wiki-publisher
		--disable-ext-nlpsolver
		 --without-fonts
		--with-system-apr
		--with-system-libcdr
		 --with-system-mdds
		--without-myspell-dicts
		--with-system-libvisio
		 --without-system-libcmis
		--with-system-libmspub
		--without-system-libexttextcat
		--without-system-orcus
		--without-system-liblangtag
		--without-system-jfreereport
		 --without-system-apache-commons
		--with-system-libodfgen
		--with-system-libmwaw
 		--with-system-libetonyek
		--without-system-libfreehand
		--without-system-firebird
		 --with-system-libatomic-ops
		--with-system-libebook
		--with-system-libabw
		 --disable-coinmp
		--without-system-libgltf
		--with-system-dicts
 		--with-external-dict-dir=/usr/share/hunspell
		--with-external-hyph-dir=/usr/share/hyphen
		--with-external-thes-dir=/usr/share/mythes
 		--with-system-beanshell
		--with-system-cppunit
		--with-system-graphite
 		--with-system-glew
		--with-system-glm
		--with-system-libwpg
 		--with-system-libwps
		--with-system-redland
		--with-system-serf
		 --without-system-npapi-headers
		--with-jdk-home="/usr/lib/jvm/default"
		--with-ant-home="/usr/share/apache-ant"
 		--without-system-boost
		--with-system-icu
		--with-system-cairo
		--with-system-libs
		--with-system-mythes
		--with-system-headers
		--without-system-hsqldb
		--with-alloc=system
		--with-system-clucene
		--disable-dependency-tracking
		--disable-hardlink-deliver
		--with-jpeg-turbo --with-system-mesa-headers --disable-postgresql-sdbc
		--disable-lotuswordpro --disable-firebird-sdbc --disable-extension-update --disable-gstreamer-1-0
		--disable-kdeab --disable-tdeab --disable-sdremote --enable-cairo-canvas --disable-lto --disable-pdfimport

Is too sloow to compile (+- 3 hours, in a i5-2500k), but now works acceptably. Sometimes crash when printing, but in general is fine.

pb

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

@mapintar - Alternative to compile LO yourself is to use binary packages from Document Foundation. There is libreoffice-fresh-rpm in AUR. Upstream version is almost always stable and built with built-in gtk(2) interface. Repack is quicky.

marcio

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Registered: 2010-10-08

Posts: 39

Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

LibreOffice 5 was crashing in my pc too, but just when a had to open or save a document. The solution was in options check to use libreoffice dialog boxes.

kabbalah

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Registered: 2011-08-23

Posts: 150

Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

I have the same problem, I installed Libreoffice-fresh 5 several times and always turned off when you open a document, have done what they say in the post and nothing worked, addition, images and letters are very bad, so I decided to stick with Libreoffice-still works without any problem and everything looks great. Libreoffice-fresh and reached his maturity to use it.

marvelvance

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Registered: 2015-05-06

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Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

Was having the same problem but it stop after doing what written here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … ave_button

joe_silver

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Registered: 2015-04-21

Posts: 27

Re: [workaround] LibreOffice 5.0.1 crashing soon after documents opened

Fixed for me with LibreOffice 5.0.3.