On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 16:57 +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>
> * corrupted user profile: how to handle that? (Heiko)
> + interesting if we have steps wrt how to corrupt it (Xisco)
> + otherwise: clean the profile via safe mode
Yeah, I just had one of these (tdf#135398, of little interest). And
the closest I could come for the wanted steps was "I routinely abuse
LibreOffice in every way I can think of, and then I do it all over
again." This is somewhat short on detail. <grin />
I have hacked together a script to commit the user profile to a git
repository after execution of soffice. My hope is that I shall be
able to usefully localize the origin of the corruption. If I have
success, I will come back for advice on how to generalize and share my
work.
I guess success here means that
(a) I get versioning working;
(b) I stumble across another problem dependent on a corrupted profile,
and I can bisect back to an execution of LO;
(c) the changes made by that execution are both small enough to bear
examination and they inform somebody (probably not me) of what went
wrong.
It would be good--but is probably too much to hope for-- that I should
remember what I was doing in that execution of LO.
Should I persist in this effort? Thoughts welcome.
Meanwhile, for those who might be interested, here is the "usage"
message of the script:
terry@buster:~/lo_hacking/git/libo6$ ~/lo_hacking/scripts/soff --help
Usage: soff [ OPTIONS ] [ -- [ ARGUMENTS_TO_LO ] ]
OPTIONS
--help | -h print this message and exit
--intent MSG one-line declaration, sticks until changed
--soffice=run|debugrun|skip
run (default) run soffice directly
debugrun run gdb around soffice
skip do not run soffice at all
--skip-git do not commit user profile after soffice
ARGUMENTS_TO_LO are passed unchanged to LiberOffice except
that ARGUMENTS_TO_LO are ignored when --soffice=debugrun
and after execution of:
~/lo_hacking/scripts/soff \
--intent "just playing around with versioning the user profile" \
-- -writer
here is the commit message:
terry@buster:~/lo_hacking/git/libo6$ GIT_DIR=user_profile_git/.git/ \
git log -1
commit de5c2cee84ee6efc85d938600b4401d0e1d27da9 (HEAD -> master)
Author: Terrence Enger <ten...@iseries-guru.com>
Date: Thu Aug 13 12:12:09 2020 -0400
s-h 28022cee396715bc4b474ed1571074dc721bbe13
just playing around with versioning the user profile
exit code from soffice = 0; 2020-08-13T12:12:09-04:00
Thanks,
Terry.
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