after upgrade to Xubuntu 18.04 Libreoffice crashes during starting

[Ivo Naninck]

It crashes while libreoffice is starting.
I have already tried to remove the user profile from /home/inaninck/.config/.libreoffice/4......

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libreoffice 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sat Jul 28 21:53:46 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-19 (1650 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Ivo Naninck (ivo-naninck)]

I also removed and re-installed libreoffice...... no luck

Vriendelijke groet,
Ivo Naninck

On 28-07-18 21:58, Ivo Naninck wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> It crashes while libreoffice is starting.
> I have already tried to remove the user profile from /home/inaninck/.config/.libreoffice/4......
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
> Package: libreoffice 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
> Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic i686
> ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
> Architecture: i386
> CurrentDesktop: XFCE
> Date: Sat Jul 28 21:53:46 2018
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-01-19 (1650 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release i386 (20131016)
> SourcePackage: libreoffice
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
> ** Affects: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: apport-bug bionic i386
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Wladimir Mutel (mwg)]

found this problem with 32-bit Lubuntu 18.04 (i386/i686), my 'lowriter' crashed
in strace there was SIGSEGV in some of spawned processes ('soffice.bin')
what helped me, was removing Java stuff ('apt remove openjdk-11-jre-headless' , then 'apt autoremove')
after that, 'lowriter' complained about missing JRE, but at least it started with working window as expected.
probably this bug should be attributed to OpenJDK packages as well.

[Wladimir Mutel (mwg)]

I did not reproduce this problem under amd64 Ubuntu 18.04 so I would guess that it affects only 32-bit LibreOffice+OpenJDK11 (i386/i686). Probably because testing 32-bit packages is of lesser priority.

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

This is a known issue, see bug #1699772. It affects only 32-bits installations. A simple way of working around the issue would be to uninstall libreoffice-java-common. Or to simply run the following command in a terminal:

    sed -i '/enabled/c\<enabled xsi:nil="false">false<\/enabled>' ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/config/javasettings_Linux_*.xml

Some functions of libreoffice won't work without Java (the most visible probably being libreoffice base), but most of the office suite should work just fine.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.