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olividir

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Registered: 2023-01-22

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[Solved]Libreoffice fresh 7.5 doesn not start after it crashed

Dear community. I have a slight problem.

Today I was working on my LO spreadsheet for my thesis, when LO crashed. Unfortunately I had enabled OpenGL rendering shortly before, because I was curious if I would gain anything by it.

After this crash, LO will just not open. Running LO in terminal does nothing, and the application just hangs until I `ctrl`+`c` out.

Things I have done:

Uninstalled and deleted the LO directory from `home/.config`

Installed LO again.
Tried killing the process (just to make sure it was not running).

Disabled Wayland, logged out and back in. This method got the `libreoffice --safe-mode` going. I went into settings there and disabled OpenGL. Restarting the program I got a weird error:
```
libreoffice --safe-mode
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
```
But LO does not need Java to run.

Anyway, I closed this process and tried again only to have the application hanging again.

The newest post about this issue is about 2.5 years ago, found [here](https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=259733)

I am running GNOME and I am not far enough in my Arch learning to be messing with environment as the [wiki](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Enviro … nvironment) describes it.

I am currently stuck. Any ideas in which steps to take next would be very appreciated.

Last edited by olividir (2023-05-02 22:26:01)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [Solved]Libreoffice fresh 7.5 doesn not start after it crashed

The *warning* isn't fatal. Just means you've no java.
Are you currently running gnome on wayland (again)?

I think there was a bug where something (and I think it was LO… or firefox?) ran on a micro-window (1x1 px or so)

Try to run LO in an X11 session and check the output of

wmctrl -l

If there's sth. like a libreoffice window, try

wmctrl -ir 0x0123456789 -e 0,200,200,640,480

nb. that "0x0123456789" is a placeholder for the actual WId in wmctrl -l

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olividir

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Registered: 2023-01-22

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Re: [Solved]Libreoffice fresh 7.5 doesn not start after it crashed

I am running GNOME on Wayland, I have not set up X11 or XWayland.

I am going to have to up my game if I am to keep up with you here.

Must have been firefox that ran this small, when I try to kill LO, it is not running.
Will get X11 on here and try this. Thank you.

seth

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Re: [Solved]Libreoffice fresh 7.5 doesn not start after it crashed

when I try to kill LO, it is not running.

the application just hangs until I `ctrl`+`c` out.

Tried how? The process name is likely "soffice".

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olividir

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Re: [Solved]Libreoffice fresh 7.5 doesn not start after it crashed

I tried killing it after I `ctrl`+`c` in terminal.

Interesting development, I got back into safe mode by killing few "soffice" processes in a different terminal tab while running `onlyoffice  --safe-mode` in another... Not sure if I would recommend that.

olividir

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Registered: 2023-01-22

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Re: [Solved]Libreoffice fresh 7.5 doesn not start after it crashed

THERE WE GO.

For some reason the "Render with OpenGL" did not uncheck last time. This time I was able to make sure it was unchecked. As a result LO works again.

So basically running an instance of LO through terminal and trying to kill it in another somehow got LO actually starting in safe mode. Have no idea how or why this happened, but it did.

Thank you for your help.