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Libreoffice runs fine when logged as root.
When I log in as other user with admin rights, "application error" is generated (run from terminal) and initial startup window vanish. No error/warninig is logged in any file in /var/log.
My laptop has an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 and I get this crash. Adding this to my .bash_profile fixed the issue for me:
Code:
export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965
You can also add this somewhere in /etc/profile.d for all users. Hopefully this will work for you.
Last edited by stormtracknole; 05-12-2021 at 05:48 AM.
Reason: formatting
My laptop has an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 and also got that "Application Error" thing. I solved my problem either by setting "MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965" like others have pointed out, or by disabling the usage of OpenCL (Tools -> Options... -> OpenCL -> Uncheck "Allow use of OpenCL").
I found out this in the Arch Wiki, which indicates that I need to install an OpenCL runtime for Intel HD Graphics since LibreOffice runs perfectly fine with OpenCL disabled. I haven't tried it though since I mostly use LibreOffice for editing simple documents so disabling OpenCL is already good enough for me (for now).
Last edited by mumahendras3; 05-12-2021 at 09:45 AM.
Reason: Forgot to attach the wiki link lmao
I'm still on 14.2 and compile LibreOffice 6.2.8 (en-GB) using Christoph Willing's work from SlackBuilds.org.
The only problem I ever have is with Thesaurus. It's never there it's button in menu bar Tools is greyed out.
In the compile I configure with --with-system-mythes
and the compile log reports
Quote:
checking for thesaurus directory... file:///usr/share/mythes
On my system /usr/share/mythes doesn't exist. I would have thought that this would have been supplied by the package mythes, but all that seems to have installed is
Quote:
PACKAGE NAME: mythes-1.2.4-x86_64-1_20210506143659_SBo
COMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 24K
UNCOMPRESSED PACKAGE SIZE: 70K
PACKAGE LOCATION: /tmp/mythes-1.2.4-x86_64-1_20210506143659_SBo.tgz
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
mythes: mythes (simple thesaurus)
mythes:
mythes: MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured text data file
mythes: and an index file with binary search to lookup words and phrases and
mythes: return information on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms.
mythes:
mythes: Homepage: https://hunspell.github.io/
mythes:
mythes:
mythes:
mythes:
FILE LIST:
./
install/
install/doinst.sh
install/slack-desc
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/bin/th_gen_idx.pl
usr/doc/
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/AUTHORS
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/COPYING
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/ChangeLog
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/INSTALL
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/README
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/WordNet_license.txt
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/WordNet_readme.txt
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/data_layout.txt
usr/doc/mythes-1.2.4/mythes.SlackBuild
usr/include/
usr/include/mythes.hxx
usr/lib64/
usr/lib64/libmythes-1.2.la
usr/lib64/libmythes-1.2.so.0.0.0
usr/lib64/pkgconfig/
usr/lib64/pkgconfig/mythes.pc
So I head off to Apache OpenOffice and do a search
My laptop has an Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 and also got that "Application Error" thing. I solved my problem either by setting "MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=i965" like others have pointed out, or by disabling the usage of OpenCL (Tools -> Options... -> OpenCL -> Uncheck "Allow use of OpenCL").
I found out this in the Arch Wiki, which indicates that I need to install an OpenCL runtime for Intel HD Graphics since LibreOffice runs perfectly fine with OpenCL disabled. I haven't tried it though since I mostly use LibreOffice for editing simple documents so disabling OpenCL is already good enough for me (for now).
Thank you.
Any of those options work, and also any of SAL_DISABLE_OPENCL=1 and/or SAL_DISABLEGL=1
The only problem I ever have is with Thesaurus. It's never there it's button in menu bar Tools is greyed out.
In Tools->Options->Language Settings->Writing Aids, click on the link near the bottom "Get more dictionaries online ...". After waiting for the resulting box to become populated, select and install a dictionary e.g. "English Dictionaries" (it takes a few moments), then Close and Apply. The Thesaurus option should now be available from the Tools menu.
I'm not sure how to make that happen automatically when installing LibreOffice itself though.
Doesn't it seem very strange to anyone that an application like Libreoffice worries about things like graphic acceleration or calculation with graphics cards (OpenCL)?
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,097
Original Poster
Rep:
LibreOffice 7.1.4 Community has been released by The Document Foundation.
Quote:
Berlin, June 10, 2021 – LibreOffice 7.1.4 Community, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 7.1 family, targeted at technology enthusiasts and power users, is available for download from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/. LibreOffice 7.1.4 includes around 80 bug fixes, with 20% focused on Microsoft Office file compatibility (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, and legacy DOCs).........
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,097
Original Poster
Rep:
LibreOffice 7.1.5 Community has been released by The Document Foundation.
Quote:
Berlin, July 22, 2021 –
.........LibreOffice 7.1.5 includes around 55 bug fixes, with 20% focused on Microsoft Office file compatibility (DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, and legacy DOCs).
Alternatively use Eric's 7.2.0 packages for -current:
Quote:
Wed Aug 25 15:37:57 UTC 2021
libreoffice: updated to 7.2.0 for Slackware-current.
You can compile this on Slackware 14.2 yourself with some caveats, see the
header of the libreoffice.SlackBuild.
I have AlienBob's 7.2.0 packages installed and everything is fine as usual and as well as Eric's superb job usually is.
Now, I've observed that upon starting Libre Office, the progress bar of the splash screen goes as usual and then it stops for 10 seconds at about half of the progress. At the same time, one of the CPU cores gets usage near 100%. After this, the launch process goes back to normal and the application window shows as it should.
I'd like to add that this behavior is unusual; all previous LibreOffice versions loaded normally, and with the speed expected from a SSD drive.
I also have LibreOffice 7.2 installed on MS Windows and there the app loads normally.
I don't know whether other builds on Linux (e.g., precomplied binary downloaded from The Document Foundation and others) behave.
Any workaround? Any confirmation? Thanks in advance.
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