Comment 12 for bug 1838249

Here is what I did:

sudo apt autoremove --purge libreoffice*
sudo reboot
rm -Rf .config/libreoffice
sudo apt install libreoffice-writer
mkdir -p .config/libreoffice/4/user/
cp -a registrymodifications.xcu .config/libreoffice/4/user/

This is registrymodifications.xcu

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<oor:items xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/VCL"><prop oor:name="ForceOpenGL" oor:op="fuse"><value>false</value></prop></item>
<item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Common/VCL"><prop oor:name="UseOpenGL" oor:op="fuse"><value>false</value></prop></item>
</oor:items>

The result:

$ lowriter --norestore
dbus[2685]: arguments to dbus_message_iter_append_basic() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_utf8 (*string_p)" failed in file ../../../dbus/dbus-message.c line 2754.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.

  D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
Application Error

Fatal exception: Signal 6
Stack:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x13568)[0x7f87f6669568]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c5d6)[0x7f87f66925d6]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7f87f62a3f20]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xc7)[0x7f87f62a3e97]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x141)[0x7f87f62a5801]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2d5d6e2)[0x7f87f960d6e2]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN11Application5AbortERKN3rtl8OUStringE+0xa2)[0x7f87f9599092]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x1d0e9b0)[0x7f87f85be9b0]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2ceea3d)[0x7f87f959ea3d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x165b2)[0x7f87f666c5b2]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c49f)[0x7f87f669249f]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7f87f62a3f20]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xc7)[0x7f87f62a3e97]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x141)[0x7f87f62a5801]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3(_dbus_abort+0x24)[0x7f87f3a0c274]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3(_dbus_strdup+0x0)[0x7f87f3a02b00]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_message_iter_append_basic+0x361)[0x7f87f39f4321]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_message_append_args_valist+0x2f3)[0x7f87f39f4e03]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdbus-1.so.3(dbus_message_append_args+0x99)[0x7f87f39f4ed9]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3(avahi_record_browser_new+0x17c)[0x7f87e775cbdc]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcups.so.2(+0x29316)[0x7f87f0649316]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcups.so.2(cupsGetDests2+0x94)[0x7f87f0649464]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2d73127)[0x7f87f9623127]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3f179)[0x7f87f6695179]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0(+0x76db)[0x7f87f3e516db]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(clone+0x3f)[0x7f87f638688f]