I used libreoffice intensively today to do many things. Now it will not start. dmesg returns the following---

[ 64.535759] soffice.bin[1564]: segfault at 7fff8 ip 00007fe24de4c5cb sp 00007fff6db97520 error 4 in libsvtlo.so[7fe24dba8000+541000]

it was working "great" up until this problem...

Hi,

to help one would need to know what exact LibreOffice version you use, where you got it from, and whether it was in binary form or you compiled it yourself.

Hi I am using the latest version pkg from Alien Bob on Slackware-64 -current. it was working "great" until it stopped working. I have tried opening in KDE and XFCE and the result is similar... a glimpse of the startup splash screen and then nothing.

It is a quite recent install of Slackware-64 -current and there were no issues up until this recent "death". I know it is a quite trivial matter for me to try a fix by a re-install of libreoffice and that is likely what I should do but I thought it might be good to consult with y'all before doing that.

Maybe logout from X and startx, see if it cleaned cached content

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Didn't see your last message...
Is there libreoffice data profiles somewhere?

Hey,

Exactly the same problem happened to me but using Mint 13.

Have you tried starting into Start Center versus starting right into one of the components (Writer, Calc, etc)? Starting into a component with or without a document name? (If you don't have a launcher/shortcut, you can start right into Writer without a document using the command line, something like "/opt/libreoffice4.3/program/soffice.bin --writer".) This might help narrow down the cause, given that it started suddenly.

Could there be a problem with your Start Center document preview images?

i noticed that several people have reported this problem with various flavours of linux not just Slackware-64 -current
and that it seems to be a Libreoffice bug.

After some failed attempts to fix it by --reinstall -ing the original libreoffice 4.3.1 -latest package from AlienBob,

I went to the LibreOffice web site and snagged the very most recent 64-bit Dev version in rpm form,
did a "removepkg libreoffice", converted the rpms to slackware packages with rpm2tgz,
installed the .tgz packages with installpkg.

Now it percolates just like it's supposed to.

Nice solution. I just copied the old version from backup. Hopefully Alien Bob will read this thread and upgrade his version, but the old version works fine for me and "AB" has other things to do also.

I dont know how alienbob finds the time to do all the cool things he does for everyone.

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I've had problems whenever I upgrade LibreOffice. Sometimes it won't start after an upgrade. What I find usually helps is removing all the old first then installing the new packages clean.

Hello,

for my part (opensuse) it actually required a removal of the .libreoffice folder to start correctly again

my 2 cents

Two hints:

1. Alien
2. Bob

I had the same problem in debian jessie with version 4.3.2 of LibreOffice. At this point in time (30.01.2016) it can be fixed using jessie backports:
I'm not sure it's really necessary, but I removed all the old libreoffice packages first. I recommend using synaptic for that, because it's faster and you can see everything thats installed at once.

Using the command above will install LibreOffice 5.0, which works fine in debian jessie.

Your solution will not work here since you use a different distribution

For those who like to roll their own, a SlackBuild for LibreOffice-5.0.4.2 that builds on -current at:

https://github.com/cwilling/slackbui...ce/LibreOffice

- just waiting to see if SBo has room for it when they reopen submissions.

chris