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#1 2016-11-13 00:42:40

dicaiopolis
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[solved] Libreoffice stopped working

Hi everybody,

Last week I update my Arch system. After that, Libreoffice stopped working. When I click on it, nothing happens. Uninstalled it, then reinstalled. Nothing. I'm using Libreoffice-fresh, but tried LO-still too with no results. Tried a new profile and... nothing. In terminal, when I run LibreOffice, there's no message of any kind (and nothing happens).
Do you have any idea of what's going on? Any tips?
Thanks for helping,
D.

Last edited by dicaiopolis (2016-11-13 23:31:45)

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#2 2016-11-13 08:18:38

seth
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

gnome? on wayland? (the default)
from the terminal emulator, try to run "lowriter" - "LibreOffice" (CamelCased) should not exist (and actually give a respective error message "command not found" or similar)

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#3 2016-11-13 16:02:35

dicaiopolis
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

seth wrote:

gnome? on wayland? (the default)
from the terminal emulator, try to run "lowriter" - "LibreOffice" (CamelCased) should not exist (and actually give a respective error message "command not found" or similar)

Thanks for your answer. I'm on KDE (Plasma 5). Running "lowriter" gives no results. Nothing happens, no error message, no message at all. Just like running "libreoffice".
Thanks,
D.

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#4 2016-11-13 16:18:13

seth
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

entering that in konsole prints nothing at all???
does it exit immediately?

what, if you

export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
lowriter

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#5 2016-11-13 16:39:05

dicaiopolis
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

seth wrote:

entering that in konsole prints nothing at all???
does it exit immediately?

what, if you

export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
lowriter

It prints nothing and nothing happens, I mean, you get the terminal occupied (as if it were trying to run libreoffice), but no message at all and nothing happens...

Running:

export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen
lowriter

gets the same result...

Thanks,
D.

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#6 2016-11-13 16:45:45

seth
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

move away ~/.config/libreoffice and try again. if that doesn't get you anywhere you best edit the script to strace the binary to see where it stalls.

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#7 2016-11-13 16:47:47

dicaiopolis
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

seth wrote:

move away ~/.config/libreoffice and try again. if that doesn't get you anywhere you best edit the script to strace the binary to see where it stalls.

I've already moved  ~/.config/libreoffice: no results.
Could you give some details about  "edit the script to trace the binary to see where it stalls"?
Thanks,
D.

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#8 2016-11-13 16:49:01

dicaiopolis
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

I was thinking if, during the update, some files were installed with 0 size. Maybe that's the issue. How could I trace 0 bite files in my system to try to reinstall the packages?

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#9 2016-11-13 23:31:15

dicaiopolis
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Re: [solved] Libreoffice stopped working

I could fix it finding some packages using

pacman -Qkk 2>&1 | grep "^.*: no mtree file$"

and then reinstalling every single package that was listed.
Thanks once more,
D.

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