Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:21:13PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 12:12:40PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > Can you try to start it from a terminal [...] [...] > The first time I start it from a terminal there are no messages, but > there are three processes left running [...] [...] > Thanks for your reply. Thank you for the detailed writeup. Fascinating. Sorry I haven't many ideas to offer... but you might check whether there is a LO process running *before* you first start it (perhaps started by your session management, whatever)? Cheers - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllbR9sACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbgdgCaA2IHAoLKKRq0fix/SIai1cNg ebIAnR3dEAFumUpddymsL7hAD/kVFEvp =L5UC -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
Hi, On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:28:42PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 01:00:33PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > > > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > > > notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. > > > > i386? > > > Yes > > > > This same problem occurred before I upgraded to Stretch from > > > Jessie. I have several desktop computers with other processors > > > on which Writer does not have this problem. > > > > > > I'm wondering if this is a known issue. I've not been able to > > > discover anything on this. > > > > It is. If you didn't find it you didn't even try looking at LOs > > bugs in Debian. Here: > > > This problem has existed on this notebook for quite some time, and > I did look at the bug reports several months ago and found nothing Ah, then its not this. But currently it will fail on i386... There was some unclear report once noone was able to reproduce... > As I mentioned in my reply to Tomas a little while ago, I happen > to also have a system with an amd64 processor which has an i386 OS > installed, and Writer seems to work just fine on it, so it seems > like it might be the difference between the processors that is > causing the problem rather than the difference between the i386 > and amd64 distributions. Hmm. In your case that might be right.. Regards, Rene
Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 01:00:33PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > > notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. > > i386? > Yes > > This same problem occurred before I upgraded to Stretch from > > Jessie. I have several desktop computers with other processors > > on which Writer does not have this problem. > > > > I'm wondering if this is a known issue. I've not been able to > > discover anything on this. > > It is. If you didn't find it you didn't even try looking at LOs > bugs in Debian. Here: This problem has existed on this notebook for quite some time, and I did look at the bug reports several months ago and found nothing that seemed to apply. My apologies for my laziness in failing to check again before asking on this list. As I mentioned in my reply to Tomas a little while ago, I happen to also have a system with an amd64 processor which has an i386 OS installed, and Writer seems to work just fine on it, so it seems like it might be the difference between the processors that is causing the problem rather than the difference between the i386 and amd64 distributions. > Thank you for your help. Regards, Don
Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
On Sun, Jul 02, 2017 at 12:12:40PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > > notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. > > > > All the LibreOffice modules seem to work fine except for Writer. > > Can you try to start it from a terminal and see if there are error > messages that shed more light on that? > The first time I start it from a terminal there are no messages, but there are three processes left running, the oosplash and soffice.bin that I mentioned before and also one instance of "/bin/sh /usr/bin/lowriter". If I try to run lowriter from the terminal a second time, It simply gives me back the terminal prompt after a second or two and leaves the same three processes running. However, if I then kill those three processes and then run lowriter from the terminal a third time, Writer starts up on the screen and it tells me there are two unsaved documents labeled Untitled1 and Untitled2 and asks whether to recover them or discard them. If I discard them, it then displays the screen which offers recent documents. If I select one of them everything then disappears from the screen and the line prompt returns in the terminal. This notebook is running an i386 system since the atom n455 processor is i386, however, I happen to have a system with an amd64 processor but which is running debian i386 stretch and Writer works fine on it. So, it seems like the processor rather than i386/amd64 is the operative difference. I see that Rene Engelhard has also replied to me pointing out a couple of bug reports on this that I missed, so I will take a look at those to see if they help. Thanks for your reply. Regards, Don
Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. i386? > This same problem occurred before I upgraded to Stretch from > Jessie. I have several desktop computers with other processors > on which Writer does not have this problem. > > I'm wondering if this is a known issue. I've not been able to > discover anything on this. It is. If you didn't find it you didn't even try looking at LOs bugs in Debian. Here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865866 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865303 + friends (ok, that one's closed given the kernel people though it's fixed, but apparently not on i386) https://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2017/07/msg0.html Regards, Rene
Re: LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 11:05:20PM -0700, dmacdoug wrote: > I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC > notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. > > All the LibreOffice modules seem to work fine except for Writer. Can you try to start it from a terminal and see if there are error messages that shed more light on that? I.e. open a terminal and type into it lowriter Cheers - -- tomás -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAllYxxgACgkQBcgs9XrR2ka2KwCfRtaELIKynP8griih2NBCRUy9 a8AAnA9tTUsT4PY1+Ptcjnes1TDsJsz8 =NlyV -END PGP SIGNATURE-
LibreOffice5 Writer will not load
I have LibreOffice5 installed on Debian Stretch on an Asus EeePC notebook which uses an Atom N455 processor. All the LibreOffice modules seem to work fine except for Writer. When I try to launch Writer it begins loading and a banner saying "LibreOffice 5" appears across the middle of the screen for several seconds, as would be normal. There's a line at the bottom of the banner which progresses across to demonstrate that the program is loading until the line is all the way across, at which point the banner disappears but the word processor never appears. ps shows that two processes are left running: "oosplash --writer" and "soffice.bin --writer --splash-pipe=5" This same problem occurred before I upgraded to Stretch from Jessie. I have several desktop computers with other processors on which Writer does not have this problem. I'm wondering if this is a known issue. I've not been able to discover anything on this. Don MacDougall
