[SOLVED] [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Keith Bates 

You wouldn't believe how simple this was to fix!

I considered doing the complete removal then re-installation but what 
put me off that was it wanted to remove gnome for some reason. Even 
removing just some of the components dragged gnome with it, and I am not 
keen on using linux without a desktop environment.


I had a spare log-in profile  already, and LO works in that profile. The 
thought of using one log-in to access software installed on a different 
log-in just seems too prone to messing up, but at least I knew there was 
an option there.


In the end, I thought about it and realised that it is only templates 
that are the issue here, so let's examine the templates issue.


I looked at the Path options in Tools-Options-Libre Office- Paths. It 
appears that for some reason LO had added my home directory as a path 
for templates, as well as the default path. I deleted the home 
directory, recreated the template folder in my config folder then copied 
my templates back in and now it's all working.


Thank you for all the suggestions

Keith


On 21/4/19 8:56 pm, Keith Bates wrote:

Hi all

So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The 
normally easy, no dramas upgrade was far from ideal.


After several hours of fiddling, my tech expert son found some obscure 
gnome settings got wrecked, and once we trawled through various log 
files and found the  offending files, all was well.


Except Libre Office.

Everything important seems to work unless you try to use templates- 
either through the opening screen or through File- Manage Templates. 
At that point the program freezes. Eventually a message window opens 
to say that "Libre Office 6.2 Writer is not responding" with options 
to Force Quit or Wait.


I have tried the usual things:

 * remove configuration files
 * re-install
 * downloaded the DEBs from the Libre Office web site and tried to
   install over the existing installation.

So far nothing has resolved the issue.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Michael H 
When I've had stuff I MUST recover after an event like this, I find the
easiest way is to make a new user account, and set the permissions on the
old user account folder to either be owned by the new user, or open to the
drive, depending on my mood and the distribution's built in networking.

I won't try to give you a detailed instruction, but once you have a new
user account, and are sure it is the default user that will login when the
system boots, "chown" is the secret to allow access to your older files.

On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 11:10 AM Michael H  wrote:

> When I've had stuff I MUST recover after an event like this, I find the
> easiest way is to make a new user account, and set the permissions on the
> old user account folder to either be owned by the new user, or open to the
> drive, depending on my mood and the distribution's built in networking.
>
> I can't give you a detailed list, but once you have a new user account,
> and are sure it is the default user that will login when the system boots,
> chown is the secret to allow access to your older files.
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 11:04 AM jonathon  wrote:
>
>> On 4/21/19 10:56 AM, Keith Bates wrote:
>> > So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally
>>
>> The only safe way to upgrade from one version of Ubuntu, to another, is
>> to wipe the drive, and install the new version of Ubuntu.
>>
>> > Except Libre Office.
>>
>> Uninstall LibreOffice.
>> Delete _all_ configuration files.
>> /home/user_name/config/.libreoffice/*
>>
>> Delete _all_ files in /opt/libreoffice/*
>> from /home/user_name/
>> cd ..
>> cd ..
>> ls -alR | grep offic
>>
>> Delete all folders and files that have libreoffice as part of their name.
>>
>> Then download LibreOffice from
>> https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
>>
>> Unpack and install LibreOffice.
>>
>> jonathon
>>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Italo Vignoli 
In any case, the bug should be notified to Ubuntu, as they repackage 
LibreOffice (and in some cases they create specific bugs, which do not 
affect LibreOffice vanilla).


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In data 21 aprile 2019 18:07:43 Gilles Gravier  ha scritto:


Please don't spread nonesense. Ubuntu upgrades are designed to work well in
the VAST majority of cases.

Gilles

On Sun 21 Apr 2019, 18:04 jonathon,  wrote:


On 4/21/19 10:56 AM, Keith Bates wrote:
> So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally

The only safe way to upgrade from one version of Ubuntu, to another, is
to wipe the drive, and install the new version of Ubuntu.

> Except Libre Office.

Uninstall LibreOffice.
Delete _all_ configuration files.
/home/user_name/config/.libreoffice/*

Delete _all_ files in /opt/libreoffice/*
from /home/user_name/
cd ..
cd ..
ls -alR | grep offic

Delete all folders and files that have libreoffice as part of their name.

Then download LibreOffice from
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

Unpack and install LibreOffice.

jonathon

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Gilles Gravier 
Please don't spread nonesense. Ubuntu upgrades are designed to work well in
the VAST majority of cases.

Gilles

On Sun 21 Apr 2019, 18:04 jonathon,  wrote:

> On 4/21/19 10:56 AM, Keith Bates wrote:
> > So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally
>
> The only safe way to upgrade from one version of Ubuntu, to another, is
> to wipe the drive, and install the new version of Ubuntu.
>
> > Except Libre Office.
>
> Uninstall LibreOffice.
> Delete _all_ configuration files.
> /home/user_name/config/.libreoffice/*
>
> Delete _all_ files in /opt/libreoffice/*
> from /home/user_name/
> cd ..
> cd ..
> ls -alR | grep offic
>
> Delete all folders and files that have libreoffice as part of their name.
>
> Then download LibreOffice from
> https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
>
> Unpack and install LibreOffice.
>
> jonathon
>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread jonathon 
On 4/21/19 10:56 AM, Keith Bates wrote:
> So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally

The only safe way to upgrade from one version of Ubuntu, to another, is
to wipe the drive, and install the new version of Ubuntu.

> Except Libre Office.

Uninstall LibreOffice.
Delete _all_ configuration files.
/home/user_name/config/.libreoffice/*

Delete _all_ files in /opt/libreoffice/*
from /home/user_name/
cd ..
cd ..
ls -alR | grep offic

Delete all folders and files that have libreoffice as part of their name.

Then download LibreOffice from
https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

Unpack and install LibreOffice.

jonathon

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Remy Gauthier 
Hi,

I opened a bug about this yesterday (bug 124864). I have been
experiencing this since 6.2.2 on Linux Fedora, and the only possible
resolution I found was to stick with using 6.2.1, downloaded from the
LO site. Hopefully this will work for you as well.

Rémy.


Le dimanche 21 avril 2019 à 20:56 +1000, Keith Bates a écrit :
> Hi all
> 
> So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally 
> easy, no dramas upgrade was far from ideal.
> 
> After several hours of fiddling, my tech expert son found some obscure 
> gnome settings got wrecked, and once we trawled through various log 
> files and found the  offending files, all was well.
> 
> Except Libre Office.
> 
> Everything important seems to work unless you try to use templates- 
> either through the opening screen or through File- Manage Templates. At 
> that point the program freezes. Eventually a message window opens to say 
> that "Libre Office 6.2 Writer is not responding" with options to Force 
> Quit or Wait.
> 
> I have tried the usual things:
> 
>   * remove configuration files
>   * re-install
>   * downloaded the DEBs from the Libre Office web site and tried to
> install over the existing installation.
> 
> So far nothing has resolved the issue.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Thank you
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> **Senior Pastor
> 
> *p: 02 67924890
> 
> s: 4 Mooloobar St
>  Narrabri, NSW 2390
> w3w: checklist.windsurf.partly
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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[libreoffice-users] Libreoffice corrupted by Ubuntu failed upgrade

2019-04-21 Thread Keith Bates 

Hi all

So I thought I would upgrade from Ubuntu to 18.10 to 19.04. The normally 
easy, no dramas upgrade was far from ideal.


After several hours of fiddling, my tech expert son found some obscure 
gnome settings got wrecked, and once we trawled through various log 
files and found the  offending files, all was well.


Except Libre Office.

Everything important seems to work unless you try to use templates- 
either through the opening screen or through File- Manage Templates. At 
that point the program freezes. Eventually a message window opens to say 
that "Libre Office 6.2 Writer is not responding" with options to Force 
Quit or Wait.


I have tried the usual things:

 * remove configuration files
 * re-install
 * downloaded the DEBs from the Libre Office web site and tried to
   install over the existing installation.

So far nothing has resolved the issue.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you


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s: 4 Mooloobar St
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e: chu...@new-life.org.au 

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