libreoffice crash, undefined symbol: hb_graphite2_face_get_gr_face

[Yash Patil]

Libreoffice doesn't open or work

launching from terminal errors out with following error:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so: undefined symbol: hb_graphite2_face_get_gr_face

A quick google search gave solution to remove /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libharfbuzz.so.0, which works although temporarily
the package "libharfbuzz0b" reinstalls this lib and it causes same error again

Also the package libharfbuzz0b is used by other packages so cant be removed from apt directly, leading to no permanent solution to this problem

Info about the libreoffice and libharfbuzz0b packages -

```
apt list libreoffice -a
Listing... Done
libreoffice/jammy-updates,now 1:7.3.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 amd64 [installed]
libreoffice/jammy 1:7.3.2-0ubuntu2 amd64
```

```
apt list libharfbuzz0b -a
Listing... Done
libharfbuzz0b/jammy,now 2.7.4-1ubuntu3 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libharfbuzz0b/jammy 2.7.4-1ubuntu3 i386
```

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: libreoffice 1:7.3.4-0ubuntu0.22.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-40.43-generic 5.15.35
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Jul 11 23:31:01 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-08-06 (704 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20200203.1)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-04-24 (78 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What's the output of

$ ldd -r /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so

?

[Yash Patil (androygaming)]

Hi @seb128
the output of the command is attached to this post. Let me know if you need something else

Meanwhile I tried reinstalling libreoffice libreoffice-core libreoffice-common packages with apt but no help, didnt solve the issue

[Yash Patil (androygaming)]

So it looks like the issue was with the manual harfbuzz installation I did with building one of the projects some time ago. I removed all the files that had harfbuzz in name from /usr/local and everything seems to be working fine now

[Michael Motes (michaelmotes)]

Reconfigure HarfBuzz src with `./configure --with-graphite2` (and make install) to fix the error.