LibreOffice 5.x application error
 

Recently my LibreOffice installation fails to start. All I get is a briefly flashing Libreoffice logo and then "application error" on the commandline.
This happened with a LO 5.0.3 installation that worked fine till a few days ago. I guess it happened after my most recent update to latest current (x64).
So far, I can't find anything usefull in my log files.
I then upgraded to the latest LO 5.1.0 slackbuild, but get the same "application error".
Any ideas?

David

I'm not sure if this appeared here in the forum or in the slackbuilds.org mailing list, but try to downgrade harfbuzz. This solved it for others. Or wait until there is a bugfix release if it is not an urgent matter for you.

This is due to LibreOffice having a hard dependency on an older harfbuzz. You can either downgrade it (as titipoquito recommended) or get a version of LibreOffice that was compiled for -current's harfbuzz (Eric's build works fine), or compile it yourself (which I've heard is a long compile).

Personally, I would try to not downgrade system components, just in case other programs rely on that specific dependency, and I'd go with Eric's build (as I'm too lazy to compile it myself).

I used to build LibreOffice myself using the SBo buildpackage, wich essentially repackages the LO-rpm into a txz.
I just installed Eric's package now, and that one works fine. Thx.

Unfortunately, I believe all libreoffice precompiled binaries provided directly by libreoffice link to an older harfbuzz. I believe there's a bug report in for it, but I am too lazy to search for it.

But I'm glad Eric's resolved your problem :)