writer mail merge cannot select address book

[Terry Jones]

When starting the Mail Merge Wizard in LibreOffice Writer. I get to stage 3 (select address list). When I click the Select Address List button I presented with the following error:

Loading Component Library Failed:
file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/.../program/libdbalo.so

I was hoping to be able t oselect an address list, but it never happened.

Version Details:
LibreOffice 3.5.1.2
Build ID: 350m1(Build:102)

OS:
Ubuntu 12.04 beta 2 x64

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: libreoffice (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-22.35-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Apr 7 18:20:13 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-06 (0 days ago)

[Terry Jones (terryjones1983)]

Confirmed that this bug also occurs in 3.5.2

[José Lou Chang (obake)]

I was also able to reproduce this bug.

1) Open LibreOffice Writer
2) Go to Tools--------> Mail Merge Wizard
3) Click on "Select Address List" on Step 3.
3) Error shows: "Loading component library failed:
file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/.../program/libdbalo.so"

Looking through the system, I see that "libdbalo.so" is found at
/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libreoffice/program
and not on the location that the error shows.

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

did you install a full libreoffice: apt-get install libreoffice?

[Terry Jones (terryjones1983)]

Yes I did install Libreoffice via apt-get.

[simojoki (simojoki)]

Same problem in freshly upgraded 12.04

[David Burke (bufke)]

This is marked as a duplicate but bug #986205 is fixed and this problem is still an issue.

Also IMO this is a more severe issue. I think it's very common for users to want to perform a mail merge.

You can also get this issue by going to Edit, Exchange databases, and Browse. This way is actually worse as you get no error, but I would assume it's the same issue.

[Jeroen Hoek (mail-jeroenhoek)]

This is still an issue with Ubuntu 16.04. Without the full LibreOffice package Writer will crash without any message when you try to add a database for a mail merge.

Can someone remove the duplicate tag?