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Vamp898

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[GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

Since the upgrade to GNOME 3.18 (and so glib/gtk+ are also upgraded) LibreOffice cant create PDFs

$ soffice 

(soffice:2106): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: gsignal.c:3484: signal name 'selection_changed' is invalid for instance '0x317d5d0' of type 'OOoAtkObjCompTxt'

(soffice:2106): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_ENTRY (entry)' failed

(soffice:2106): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_ENTRY (entry)' failed

(soffice:2106): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_widget_grab_focus: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(soffice:2106): Gtk-CRITICAL **: _gtk_file_chooser_entry_set_base_folder: assertion 'GTK_IS_FILE_CHOOSER_ENTRY (chooser_entry)' failed

(soffice:2106): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_get_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_ENTRY (entry)' failed

(soffice:2106): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_entry_get_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_ENTRY (entry)' failed

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

No problem here, with LibreOffice 5.0.2-2 and KDE/Plasma 5.
Shouldn't matter in which DE it's running, the functionality is the same.
Did you try switching to another entry in /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-fresh.sh?

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Vamp898

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

I changed to gen, now it works just fine (beside looking ugly as hell). Using gtk instead of gtk3 also works. Using gtk3 causes the crash.

gamanakis

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Registered: 2012-10-11

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

+1. Really frustrating.
Using

 SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk libreoffice --calc 

works also.

Last edited by gamanakis (2015-10-09 15:16:18)

gps1539

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2013-11-06

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

I changed to gen, now it works just fine (beside looking ugly as hell). Using gtk instead of gtk3 also works. Using gtk3 causes the crash.

Libreoffice is crashing when I try to save after 3.18 update. How did you work around that and use gtk vs gtk3

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

LibreOffice's gtk3 implementation is unstable since its inception look here on how to change it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LibreOffice#Theme

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

Nothing I changed the SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN variable to fixed the problem for me. I tried all the suggestions here, in the similar threads, and in the wiki. Changing from libreoffice-fresh to libreoffice-still was the only solution that worked for me.

bulletmark

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2013-10-22

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

Further to my post just above, I just read a suggestion on reddit that worked. I restored libreoffice-fresh and then Tools->Options->LibreOffice->General and check "Use LibreOffice dialogs" fixes (well, works around) the problem for me.

Last edited by bulletmark (2015-10-12 22:40:19)

iskenderoguz

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

thank you @bulletmark. your solution worked for me

Orbital_sFear

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Registered: 2014-10-13

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Re: [GNOME 3.18] LibreOffice crashes when creating PDFs

Using the Libreoffice dialogs is a valid workaround for me as well.  It does appear there is an issue with the GTk3 dialogs in 3.18.