Libre Office does not start when I click it

[Georgi Lyubomirov]

Libre office does not load

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libreoffice 1:4.0.0~beta2-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Mar 3 01:30:23 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-02 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130227.1)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Richard Seguin (richard-seguin)]

Hello,

Is this a fresh install? Or was the system recently upgraded? Have you tried running the program via the command line to see if there are any errors?

[markus haider (markus.haider)]

I can confirm this. I downloaded the daily image today, and did todays later updates. When I click on the libreoffice writer, calc or impress icon nothing happens. When I try to type libreoffice in the terminal I get

/usr/bin/libreoffice: 49: cd: can't cd to lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 M�../lib/libreoffice/program
/usr/bin/libreoffice: 156: exec: /usr/bin/oosplash: not found

[markus haider (markus.haider)]

I found out what the reason is: I was using Ubuntu with German language, and the month names which contain Umlauts, like Jänner and März were broken in the sense, that ls -l would write 'M�' instead of 'Mär', and the libreoffice script has the following section:

while [ -h "$sd_res" ] ; do
    cd "`dirname "$sd_res"`"
    sd_basename=`basename "$sd_res"`
    sd_res=`ls -l "$sd_basename" | sed "s/.*$sd_basename -> //g"`

and the strange character in ls -l seems to break things. Switching to english regional formats fixed this issue for me.

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for libreoffice (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]