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hirnschmalz

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Registered: 2020-11-19

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[SOLVED] LibreOffice recovery loop

I just did update all packages and now I'm unable to open any document in LibreOffice. Every time I try to, LibreOffice shows the recovery dialog, If I try to recover another empty recovery dialog is shown.

What I've tried so far

• Use libreoffice-still instead of libreoffice-fresh

• Disable OpenCL/OpenGL as described in https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/LibreO … or_crashes.

• Start in recovery mode and reset user settings and also do a factory reset

• Remove the libreoffice directory in my .config directory

If I try to open a document from the CLI I get the follwing error

# libreoffice --norestore -o Documents/Sample.odt
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
free(): invalid pointer
Unspecified Application Error

Last edited by hirnschmalz (2025-06-13 14:29:09)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] LibreOffice recovery loop

I just did update all packages and now

Nothing in your IgnorePkg list?
libreoffice-still has only seen rebuilds over the past month. What was actually in that update?

Start in recovery mode and reset user settings and also do a factory reset

Did the part where you start in recovery mode actually work?
This disables HW acceleration and there's a bunch of issues w/ mesa and nvidia right now…

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tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 504

Re: [SOLVED] LibreOffice recovery loop

Every time I try to, LibreOffice shows the recovery dialog, If I try to recover another empty recovery dialog is shown.

If I try to open a document from the CLI I get the follwing error

# libreoffice --norestore -o Documents/Sample.odt
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
free(): invalid pointer
Unspecified Application Error

I have seen that exact set of symptoms, and the free error as well. But only when setting:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4

You didn't perhaps set that in your environment?

systemctl --user show-environment | grep SAL

I forgot to file a bug report upstream about this, so sorry about your issue, but thanks for the reminder!

EDIT: Another options is to try the stable QT frontend:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt5 libreoffice

Last edited by tekstryder (2025-06-13 13:33:38)

hirnschmalz

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Registered: 2020-11-19

Posts: 40

Re: [SOLVED] LibreOffice recovery loop

Nothing in your IgnorePkg list?
libreoffice-still has only seen rebuilds over the past month. What was actually in that update?

No ignored packages.
I was working in libreoffice-fresh, but tried libreoffice-still just to verify that it is not a problem of libreoffice-fresh.

Did the part where you start in recovery mode actually work?

Nope.

I have seen that exact set of symptoms, and the free error as well. But only when setting:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4

That actually caused the problem. Somehow this setting made it into my .zshenv (I have to figure out when/why). Removing this solved the problem. THX!!!

tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 504

Re: [SOLVED] LibreOffice recovery loop

I have seen that exact set of symptoms, and the free error as well. But only when setting:

SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4

That actually caused the problem. Somehow this setting made it into my .zshenv (I have to figure out when/why). Removing this solved the problem. THX!!!

I filed a bug report for this issue last week and it's been fixed now.

• https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/sho … ?id=167572

I built LO 25.2.5.2 this morning with the patch and verified the GTK4 backend is now functional.

The fix might make it into 25.2.6 and will be in 25.8.x.