LibreOffice cannot read password-protected writer files

[Daniel Kraus]

1) Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04

 2)
libreoffice-writer:
  Installed: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.5.2-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

 3) What you expected to happen
Open an existing, password-protected .odt file.
Being able to read the contents of the file.

 4) What happened instead
LibreOffice complains: "Read-Error. Error reading file."
LibreOffice does not open the file for reading.

When using an older release of LibreOffice (running a live Ubuntu 11.04 system from a stick), the file opens just fine.

I was able to open the file until just a few days/weeks ago.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Daniel Kraus, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 978680
When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

As well, could you please attach the information following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOfficeBugWrangling ?

[Franck (alci)]

I think I am facing the same problem, although the file is NOT password protected.
But the symptoms are exactly the same : file opens just fine under LO3.4 on Ubuntu 11.10, but fails with read-error on LO 3.5 on Ubuntu 12.04.

I don't have any idea why yet, nor do I know what specificity this file has...

[Franck (alci)]

After investigating, I found that the specificity of the file is that it has a checkbox... So I'm going to open another bug report as this is obviously another problem...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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