libreoffice error message

**al.adab** · June 14th, 2012

hello

all of a sudden when I open libreoffice writer I get the following error message:

LibreOffice 3.5
error loading BASIC of document
file:///home/imageraw/.config/libreoffice/3/user/basic/dialog.xlc:
General Error
General imput/output error

what does that mean? I need to click twice on the "OK" on the error message to open a blank document. If I gedit it the file appears to be empty. What am I supposed to do?

thanks.

**chamber** · June 14th, 2012

http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=22402

Some info.

Look at post 7

**al.adab** · June 14th, 2012

thanks chamber for pointing me to this. I can follow the steps up to "the Libraires tab in the Macro Organize window" but then I'm lost. I can see no "web wizard", and the reference this post and the other one included in it (re: "my macro library had an old/bad entry") doesn't make much sense to me...

LibreOffice worked fine till last night. I downloaded a Xubuntu update this morning - can't remember what was in it - and I now get this error. I don't know if the two things are related, but in Synaptics I can't see anything unusual re: LibreOffice. Or maybe I'm not looking at the right place/entries.

Any idea? The version of LibreOffice I have is the 3.5.4.2. It came with the latest version of Xubuntu.

**chamber** · June 14th, 2012

check first if the file is actually there

Code:

ls -la home/imageraw/.config/libreoffice/3/user/basic/dialog.xlc

If it's there, open it with geditand check the content for invalid paths.

If there's no dialog.xlc at that place search for it and then copy it back in where it should be

Code:

locate dialog.xlc
cp [location of file] home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/dialog.xlc

**al.adab** · June 14th, 2012

feeling kind of stupid, sorry...:

locate dialog.xlc
/usr/lib/libreoffice/presets/basic/dialog.xlc
/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/basic/dialog.xlc

~$ cp /usr/lib/libreoffice/share/basic/dialog.xlc /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/dialog.xlc
cp: cannot create regular file `/home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/dialog.xlc': No such file or directory

...

**chamber** · June 14th, 2012

post the output of

Code:

ls -l /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/
ls -l /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/

**al.adab** · June 17th, 2012

imageraw@T42:~$ ls -l /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/
ls: cannot access /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/: No such file or directory
imageraw@T42:~$ ls -l /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/
ls: cannot access /home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/: No such file or directory

**chamber** · June 17th, 2012

Then it must be

Code:

cp [location of file] home/imageraw/office/.libreoffice/3/imageraw/basic/dialog.xlc

Be sure to double check the actual foldername.

**al.adab** · June 18th, 2012

thanks chamber for your help. Sorry it still doesn't seem to work. I've eventually decided to purge+remove LibreOffice and install the latest version. The error message is now gone.