Re: LibreOffice won't start
Sounds to me like a user rights issue.
First check the permissions and ownership on the executable.
Code:
rich@rich2:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/libreoffice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 7 19:44 /usr/bin/libreoffice -> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
rich@rich2:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6168 Aug 7 15:23 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
rich@rich2:~$
The final x must pe present on both files.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
Quote:
Originally Posted by
richpri
Sounds to me like a user rights issue.
First check the permissions and ownership on the executable.
Code:
rich@rich2:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/libreoffice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 7 19:44 /usr/bin/libreoffice -> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
rich@rich2:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6168 Aug 7 15:23 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
rich@rich2:~$
The final x must pe present on both files.
I checked with my computer and got essentially the same output as you
Code:
jonpeterson@laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/libreoffice
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Aug 7 20:44 /usr/bin/libreoffice -> ../lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
jonpeterson@laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6168 Aug 7 16:23 /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice
Re: LibreOffice won't start
The problem is that there are many files that could be messed up and cause this kind of problem. Perhaps a Libreoffice expert will reply with more help.
Try creating another user and see whether it can access the ap.
As a last resort you could try reinstalling the application.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
Quote:
Originally Posted by
richpri
As a last resort you could try reinstalling the application.
I already tried uninstalling and reinstalling LibreOffice Calc and that didn't seem to work. Maybe I need to shut the computer down before I reinstall or maybe I need to uninstall the whole LibreOffice suite, but I suspect that wouldn't work either. There seems to be something else mixed up, but I don't know what.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
One last suggestion. Check the logs. Try
sudo rgrep -e Libre /var/log
Good luck.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
Quote:
Originally Posted by
richpri
One last suggestion. Check the logs. Try
sudo rgrep -e Libre /var/log
Good luck.
Okay, I tried that command in a terminal and got the following
Code:
jana@laptop:~$ sudo rgrep -e Libre /var/log
[sudo] password for jana:
/var/log/auth.log:Aug 21 06:45:46 laptop sudo: jana : TTY=pts/3 ; PWD=/home/jana ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/rgrep -e Libre /var/log
Re: LibreOffice won't start
You could try removing all the libreoffice settings for the misbehaving user. Try this command to rename the folder with all the settings in it:
Code:
mv .config/libreoffice .config/libreoffice-old
and then start libreoffice again.
If it starts then it's something in the settings that is causing the problem. You might as well delete the bad settings folder and just reconfigure from scratch:
Code:
rm -rf .config/libreoffice-old
If it still won't start, then I'm out of ideas and you may as well put the settings folder back:
Code:
mv .config/libreoffice-old .config/libreoffice
Re: LibreOffice won't start
I tried moving the .config/libreoffice folder, but that didn't seem to solve anything.
I finally fixed it by removing ALL of the LibreOffice programs in Ubuntu Software Center, restarting the computer, and then reinstalling the entire LibreOffice suite. Somehow that seemed to fixed it.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
I just thought that I'd narrate my experiences here. I had the same problem as the thread originator (peterson43). I couldn't start any LibreOffice program. When clicked, the LibreOffice icon would just blink and then nothing would happen. The problem seemed to begin when I tried to open a Microsoft Office document that I had saved from our municipality's website. (I have previously opened the document without incident.) The other three other users on the computer could use LibreOffice, but I couldn't.
I tried peterson43's solution of deleting LibreOffice, rebooting, and reinstalling it, but that didn't change anything: the experiences remained the same for all users.
I then tried the solution offered by poster #7, The Cog, typing mv -rf .config/libreoffice .config/libreoffice-old and that worked (I did have to use sudo to remove that directory and its subdirectories).
So everything is fine now.
I might mentioned that I exchange many LibreOffice documents with Windows users (texts and spreadsheets), though I always save the documents as Microsoft Office documents before I send them to others.
Many thanks for the postings! I appreciate them very much.
Brian
Re: LibreOffice won't start
I had the very same problem here under kde and it turned out by dmesg to be a crash in 'libpolyester'. After
sudo apt-get remove kde-style-polyester
(whatever this one user neededthe package for), it worked again.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
I checkt program status with
Code:
ps -aux | grep libre
There I found oosplash --writer refering to some documents which were not open.
... then
Code:
sudo killall oosplash
Solved it form me.
Re: LibreOffice won't start
LibreOffice is important enough to me that I am actually replying here.
The solution for using the mv command worked.
Code:
drew@hightech:~$ sudo mv .config/libreoffice .config/libreoffice-old
[sudo] password for drew:
drew@hightech:~$ ls .config/
akonadi eog goa-1.0 libreoffice-old software-center ubuntuone
autostart file-roller gtk-2.0 menus synaptiks update-notifier
compiz-1 gedit ibus mousepad totem user-dirs.dirs
dconf gnome-disk-utility kde.org nautilus transmission user-dirs.locale
enchant gnome-session Kitware session-state Trolltech.conf
it seems like something in the config files gets botched, but when they disappear, the software has to rebuild them from scratch.
So, great idea, The Cog! This post just saved me a ton of work!
