[Solved] Libreoffice 3.6.1.4 don't start

Süerländer · 2012-09-09 13:54:21

Hello,

please excuse my bad english.

I have a problem. Since the libreoffice update from 3.5.6 to 3.6.1.4 libreoffice don't start. For a short time i see the splash-screen and that's it. In the terminal, when i type soffice or lowriter or libreoffice --writer i can't see any message. Also i deleted the ~/.config/libreoffice folder. But that doesn't help. These packages are installed: libreoffice-common libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-de libreoffice-writer libreoffice-calc. When i downgrade to 3.5.6 everything is fine.

I have a laptop with openbox and a desktop-pc with gnome. Same problem on both systems.

Do you have any tip for me?

Thanks Michael

Last edited by Süerländer (2012-09-13 07:01:16)

btorb · 2012-09-09 15:51:51

I just did the same upgrade today: no problems. Did you follow the guideline about the fonts ?

Süerländer · 2012-09-09 16:04:59

thank you for your answer.
This was the right tip.

thank you very much!!!

edit: one start succesfull and now the same problem

Last edited by Süerländer (2012-09-09 16:10:42)

zenlord · 2012-09-10 09:27:27

try starting libreoffice from the command line ('/usr/binlowriter' OOTH) and watch the output for details of the reason why it won't start.

Süerländer · 2012-09-10 10:36:01

@zenlord
please read my first post

daemon76 · 2012-09-10 13:56:17

I have the same issue. I have made symlniks of all files in /etc/fonts/conf.avail to /etc/fonts/conf.d. Launching libreoffice command from the terminal gives no error, libreoffice does not start.

btorb · 2012-09-10 14:01:22

After reviewing the guidelines to update the fonts, i noticed i didn't create any symlinks. I deleted all the conf files in /etc/fonts/conf.d/ and then ran "pacman -Syu" which installed the latest fontconfig and new libreoffice packages. Here libreoffice (tried impress and writer today) works fine.

Süerländer · 2012-09-10 14:15:01

now i deleted the file ~/.fonts.conf and the folder ~/.config/fontsconf and libreoffice 3.6.1.4 starts

daemon76 · 2012-09-11 06:39:59

there were neither .fonts.conf nor ~/.config/fontsconfig in my home directory. However libreoffice starts after removing .fonts directory! strange

OldFuzzface · 2012-09-11 11:24:45

same problem here, but none of your solutions work for me. a gdb trace gives:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xb5b58ac4 in rtl_str_getLength () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../ure-link/lib/libuno_sal.so.3

i also tried to remove the link and create a new one, but this doesn't help either. think i'll switch back to 3.5.6-1 now.

root · 2012-09-12 03:10:16

Experiencing the same problem here though I found out that the reason for LibreOffice to crash/segfault is the existence of a aquabase-language-support.ttf file which as far as I remember was perfectly accepted in previous versions.
Once I remove it from my .fonts folder LibreOffice loads as it should (no deep testing performed though).

Therefore, in case you are using a .fonts folder on my behalf I would suggest to check out its content (back it up and empty the folder and add the fonts again one by one checking each time if LibreOffice crashes or not until you find which of them may be the reason for the crash).

OldFuzzface · 2012-09-12 09:19:15

thanks for that - it seems to work now. removing my .fonts folder (with some Aquabase*.ttf in it) couldn't do anything, because some day i copied all that stuff into /usr/share/fonts - so i removed all TTF files which doesn't belong to any package in it also, and now it starts without problems. when putting back, it hangs at Aquabase.ttf ...

thanks again!

daemon76 · 2012-09-13 06:25:08

I think this post labelled as [Solved]

ArchChem · 2013-04-28 15:12:32

Hi
after an update, I have the same problem. I tried all the solutions above, but nothing worked for me.

ArchChem

ewaller · 2013-04-28 16:02:39

ArchChem,
I am going to go ahead and close this old thread. Any problems you may be encountering today are likely unrelated to problem last fall. Feel free to start a new thread and, if you think this thread is related, go ahead a link back to this thread as reference. This keeps those fighting new problems from having to sort through old solutions that may be deprecated.

Closing. Our policy

Arch Linux

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[Solved] Libreoffice 3.6.1.4 don't start

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