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Wild Penguin

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Registered: 2015-03-19

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[SOLVED] Libreoffice (still branch) does not start

Hi,

I just changed my libreoffice branch from fresh to still - but there's a problem:it just simply does not start, but hangs.

In more detail (which is not much): splash screen is displayed, along with it's loading bar. After loading is finished, a window (frame) is drawn, however nothing is displayed there and the process just hangs indefinitely (I've waited many minutes, around 5-10, but haven't actually timed it).

I've tried the following remedies:

1. deleted ~/.config/libreoffice (sadly, no effect - not aware of other configuration locations)

2. If I start from command line (just 'libreoffice'): no error messages printed in console

3. If I start by 'libreoffice --writer' (or replace writer here with any component) the empty window frame is not displayed, but a similar hang still happens

Does libreoffice-still work for other people currently?

If it does, any ideas how to continue from here? Is there a way to get debug output from libreoffice (I can't seem to find anything useful via libreoffice --help)? Any other tips / possible culprits causing this?

I'm using KDE Plasma, and haven't noticed other problems on my system recently (not sure what other information to provide, please ask if anything seems relevant!).

Thanks!

p.s. I could re-install fresh branch but of course that does not fix the problem with still... and I moved from fresh to still because of a autocalculation problem in fresh calc

Last edited by Wild Penguin (2020-10-10 15:04:39)

Wild Penguin

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Registered: 2015-03-19

Posts: 404

Re: [SOLVED] Libreoffice (still branch) does not start

Found the culprit, closing!

Problem seems to be opencl. I need to set envvar SAL_DISABLE_OPENCL=1 as per the Wiki. Though, IMHO such a bug should be fixed in LO, the envvar should not be needed...

EDIT: opencl can be disabled in LibreOffice options, as mentioned in the Wiki - so the envvar is not needed in subsequent starts.

Last edited by Wild Penguin (2020-10-11 17:36:17)