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archqt

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libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Hi,
when i open any document on libreoffice (odt/xls/txt...) then the process soffice.bin takes 100% of CPU. I don't know why, i even deleted .config/libreoffice/ and resintall libreoffice but it is always the same 100% CPU. How to fix that ?
Thanks
Sincerely

Last edited by archqt (2018-01-11 17:02:04)

flv

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Bug already reported: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57052

Downgrade glib2

isaacnewman

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Registered: 2018-01-11

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Changing the theme integration to kde (environment variable SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kde) fixed the problem in my system. I don't really know what specific KDE packages are required for this to work.

archqt

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Hi,
instead of downloading glib2 i just installed kdelibs
Thanks

flv

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Hi,
instead of downloading glib2 i just installed kdelibs
Thanks

That's bad. The issue IS glib2, and we should not work around it by installing unnecessary packages.

progandy

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

It seems the developers don't know what behaviour they want...

https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commi … 8d13e1f031
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761102#c53

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flv

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

It seems the developers don't know what behaviour they want...

https://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/commi … 8d13e1f031
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=761102#c53

That's why the latest glib update should probably be reverted by the maintainer, until the devs fix their mess

thanosfrag

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Just to confirm: I faced the same issue (LibreOffice is using too much CPU) this morning, and which I solved (temporarily) by downgrading 'glib'.

Last edited by thanosfrag (2018-01-12 14:26:33)

archqt

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Just to confirm: I faced the same issue (LibreOffice is using too much CPU) this morning, and which I solved (temporarily) by downgrading 'glib'.

Yes BUT there is a drawback, plasmashell doesn't work if i downgrade glib. I did not see it, but after rebooting, plasmashell did not work.

ewaller

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Grab and install the new glib2, that has not yet been pushed to the stable repos

https://mirrors.niyawe.de/archlinux/tes … pkg.tar.xz

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progandy

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

You can also use the generic libreoffice backend instead of kde or gtk. This seems to work as well.

$ SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice

There is already a patched version of glib2 in testing (2.54.3-2), which should also work. This might have some problems in webkit again, though.
Edit: A bit too slow

Last edited by progandy (2018-01-12 20:39:50)

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archqt

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

You can also use the generic libreoffice backend instead of kde or gtk. This seems to work as well.

$ SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen libreoffice

There is already a patched version of glib2 in testing (2.54.3-2), which should also work. This might have some problems in webkit again, though.
Edit: A bit too slow

Hi,
i installed the testing glib2-5.54.3-2 and it works fins now even with icons which were ugly.

And THANKS for everything :-)

Sincerely

Last edited by archqt (2018-01-13 09:56:33)

Yann

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

I got the same issue.
Solved it by removing libreoffice-extension-languagetool.

Last edited by Yann (2019-04-15 11:59:20)

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2ManyDogs

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Re: libreoffice 100% CPU [SOLVED]

Closing this old topic.