@Xisco Faulí - Are you asking me to download and build LibreOffice for that one source change? I wouldn't know where to begin. I am a developer but up to my eyeballs in Astrophysics projects at the moment.
Is there anyone on the development or testing team who already has the source downloaded and knows how to build LibreOffice? I am confident that such a person could easily reproduce this anomaly on Linux, Android, or Unix with the script I provided. Then, make the change I suggested. Re-run the script and see that the anomaly disappears. Also, after a change like this, wouldn't one need to run your standard regression test suite? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1777285 Title: Batch libreoffice --convert-to offers no way to wait for document completion Status in LibreOffice: New Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Command-line: libreoffice --convert-to odt:writer8 myfile.txt The returned status code ($?) is zero. So far, so good. But, when I try to access the ODT file (E.g. copy it), it doesn't yet exist. Adding `sync; sync; sync` right after the libreoffice batch execution did not help. Adding --headless as an option did not help. If I sleep for a few seconds immediately after the libreoffice batch execution, then the file finally gets completed before a subsequent command references the ODT file. Sample script: ### Create somehow a file called myfile.txt rm myfile.odt somewhere-else.odt libreoffice --headless --convert-to odt:writer8 myfile.txt RC=$? if [ $RC -ne 0 ]; then echo '*** libreoffice conversion failed for myfile.txt' exit 86 fi #sleep 3 ls *.odt Result: ls: cannot access '*.odt': No such file or directory If one changes the above script so that the sleep is executed, then the ODT file is available. Observation: It appears that executing libreoffice in batch mode is somehow kicking off a separate process to finish the ODT file. The exit to the shell and the availability of the ODT file should be synchronized. Before 18.04, I never saw this behavior. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: libreoffice 1:6.0.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-23.25-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-23-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Sat Jun 16 17:07:02 2018 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-13 (246 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926) SourcePackage: libreoffice UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-05-18 (29 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/1777285/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
