libreoffice cannot start on live or installed ubuntu budgie 19.04

[fossfreedom]

On both the 19.04 daily iso and the installed version of 19.04 UB, libreoffice writer, calc etc cannot start. All you see is a "Document Recovery" window despite that this is the first time the application is started.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: libreoffice 1:6.1.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu19
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Budgie:GNOME
Date: Sun Jan 27 22:08:51 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-21 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Budgie 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Alpha amd64 (20190121)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Do you get an error if you start it from a command line? Could you add your journalctl log after getting the issue?

[Ubuntu budgie (ubuntu-budgie)]

I got this when running "libreoffice" from the command line

javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Please ensure that a JVM and the package libreoffice-java-common
is installed.
If it is already installed then try removing ~/.libreoffice/3/user/config/javasettings_Linux_*.xml
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

So I restarted back into the live session - installed default-jre and libreoffice-java-common

This time - nothing on the command line, but still the same issue.

Nothing relevant appeared when I ran 'journactl -f' and then ran libreoffice

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

Note - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1813755

The above bug report is reported against Ubuntu 18.04.1

However the same observation - purge the package libreoffice-gtk3 ensures libreoffice starts successfully - no "document recovery" issues are observed on first start.

Obviously the styling of libreoffice is windows 95 like. ho-hum.

[Ubuntu budgie (ubuntu-budgie)]

Note 2 - I've tried the latest 18.04.1 Ubuntu Budgie daily iso and I cannot reproduce this issue - so it appears to be 19.04 specific.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[fossfreedom (fossfreedom)]

From UbuntuForums https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2407348&page=2

"Digging around i've found https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122116#c26"
which suggest a libcpdb removal: purged libcpdb-libs-common1 and cpdb-backend-cups as dependant."

I can confirm that purging those two packages allows libreoffice to start.

Document Foundation describes this bug https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122116#c26

The end of the bug report says that it is fixed in libreoffice v6.2.0.2.

Will disco be getting that version (or later of libreoffice) ?

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

Yes, disco will get 6.2 shortly.