Re: SOLVED [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Stopped Running on Debian
On 2020/06/18 19:40, Chris Dunn wrote: > jonathon, > > Thanks for this long and useful post for which I'm very grateful, but > also embarrassed, since I've managed to make some progress in a > different direction which may bypass your advice. It will be kept for > reference. Anything that fixes the issue, without blowing away your existing setup, is a much better solution than my proposal. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: SOLVED [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Stopped Running on Debian
jonathon, Thanks for this long and useful post for which I'm very grateful, but also embarrassed, since I've managed to make some progress in a different direction which may bypass your advice. It will be kept for reference. I've recently been playing with different desktop environments (I use XFCE) which now seems to be the cause of my problems. In the unlikely event that anyone else experiences similar problems I did the following. 1. Created a new user. 2. Logged in as newuser. 3. Tried different desktop environments. LO worked fine from menu and command line under LXDE, Openbox and Plasma. LO would not work on Cinnamon with similar behaviour to my original post. 4. Logged out and logged in again as my normal user. The various desktop environments worked with the same behaviour as with newuser. 5. So armed with new knowledge I logged in again to my normal XFCE session. 6. EUREKA. LO now functions as expected. Presumably some XFCE file or setting had been changed by one of the other DEs which prevented LO from running on XFCE. Thanks to all who contributed to my post, and kicked my brain into gear. Apologies for wasting your time and efforts. Please mark as solved. On 18/06/2020 13:34, toki wrote: On 2020/06/18 16:18, Chris Dunn wrote: I'm posting this here because I don't believe it is a bug, but something weird that has happened to LibreOffice on my system. ... I'm desperate to get LO running again and would appreciate any suggestions. Back up everything in your Document directory. If you have added an extensive collection of clip-art, colour palettes, templates, wordbooks, NGrams, etc. back up your user directory, and the appropriate parts of /opt/libreoffice/share (Palette, Gallery, classification, images, template are the most likely suspects from opt/libreoffice/share.) (Database, gallery are the most likely suspects from /libreoffice/4/user/.) Delete the LibreOffice directory ( Probably opt/libreoffice ) Delete ~/.config/libreoffice From the commandline run: sudo apt-get remove LibreOffice sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get check sudo apt-get autoremove What these commands do * sudo apt-get remove LibreOffice This removes the binary files associated with LibreOffice * sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice This removed the package files and the configuration files associated with LibreOffice * sudo apt-get clean This clears out the local repository of retrieved package files * sudo apt-get autoclean This removes retrieved packages files from the local repository, if they can no longer be downloaded. * sudo apt-get check This updates the package cache, looking for broken dependencies * sudo apt-get autoremove This automatically removes packages that were installed, because other packages depended upon them, but they are no longer needed. Basically, what you are doing with this sequence of commands, is clearing out your local repository of anything related to LibreOffice, and then removing any trace of LibreOffice from your system. Now, once you are sure that LibreOffice is nowhere on your system. Download the LibreOffice binaries from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=deb-x86_64&version=6.4.4&lang=en-US http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.4.4/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.4.4_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz Adjust the language, if you do not use US English. Adjust the binaries, if you are on a 32 bit Debian system. If you don't want offline help, you can skip the second download. unzip the archives I usually move the DEB for help and the language into the folder for the US-English version. Change into the folder created by the zip file cd DEB sudo pckg -i * cd DEB moves you into the DEB sub-folder sudo pckg -i * This is installs LibreOffice on your system. You'll have to reconfigure LibreOffice ">Tools >Options" etP.O. Box 520, Ocho Rios Post Office, Saint Ann 95, Saint Mary Country Club Charles Town Saint Mary Jamaica mobile : 1 876 354 0639 flow : 1 876 631 2808c. This is where you customize some of the internals. Language, grammar checking, chart colours, etc. ">Tools >Customize" etc. This is where you customize the menu and keystroke settings. ">Tools >Extension Manager". This is where to install the extensions. You will need to reinstall your extensions. ### Note: I make a lot of changes to LibreOffice defaults, and add a number of extensions. Consequently, your system might have the files in different place, and might not have everything I listed as likely suspects. I'm also assuming that if you use NGrams, TMX, word2vec, and similar obscure word-checking tools, you've got those files archived elsewhere. If you haven't backed them up, you really need to do so. jonathon -- Chris Dunn -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscri
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Stopped Running on Debian
On 2020/06/18 16:18, Chris Dunn wrote: > I'm posting this here because I don't believe it is a bug, but something > weird that has happened to LibreOffice on my system. ... > I'm desperate to get LO running again and would appreciate any suggestions. Back up everything in your Document directory. If you have added an extensive collection of clip-art, colour palettes, templates, wordbooks, NGrams, etc. back up your user directory, and the appropriate parts of /opt/libreoffice/share (Palette, Gallery, classification, images, template are the most likely suspects from opt/libreoffice/share.) (Database, gallery are the most likely suspects from /libreoffice/4/user/.) Delete the LibreOffice directory ( Probably opt/libreoffice ) Delete ~/.config/libreoffice From the commandline run: sudo apt-get remove LibreOffice sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice sudo apt-get clean sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get check sudo apt-get autoremove What these commands do * sudo apt-get remove LibreOffice This removes the binary files associated with LibreOffice * sudo apt-get purge LibreOffice This removed the package files and the configuration files associated with LibreOffice * sudo apt-get clean This clears out the local repository of retrieved package files * sudo apt-get autoclean This removes retrieved packages files from the local repository, if they can no longer be downloaded. * sudo apt-get check This updates the package cache, looking for broken dependencies * sudo apt-get autoremove This automatically removes packages that were installed, because other packages depended upon them, but they are no longer needed. Basically, what you are doing with this sequence of commands, is clearing out your local repository of anything related to LibreOffice, and then removing any trace of LibreOffice from your system. Now, once you are sure that LibreOffice is nowhere on your system. Download the LibreOffice binaries from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/?type=deb-x86_64&version=6.4.4&lang=en-US http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/6.4.4/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_6.4.4_Linux_x86-64_deb_helppack_en-US.tar.gz Adjust the language, if you do not use US English. Adjust the binaries, if you are on a 32 bit Debian system. If you don't want offline help, you can skip the second download. unzip the archives I usually move the DEB for help and the language into the folder for the US-English version. Change into the folder created by the zip file cd DEB sudo pckg -i * cd DEB moves you into the DEB sub-folder sudo pckg -i * This is installs LibreOffice on your system. You'll have to reconfigure LibreOffice ">Tools >Options" etc. This is where you customize some of the internals. Language, grammar checking, chart colours, etc. ">Tools >Customize" etc. This is where you customize the menu and keystroke settings. ">Tools >Extension Manager". This is where to install the extensions. You will need to reinstall your extensions. ### Note: I make a lot of changes to LibreOffice defaults, and add a number of extensions. Consequently, your system might have the files in different place, and might not have everything I listed as likely suspects. I'm also assuming that if you use NGrams, TMX, word2vec, and similar obscure word-checking tools, you've got those files archived elsewhere. If you haven't backed them up, you really need to do so. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Stopped Running on Debian
Valter, Thanks for the input. Ran ps aux, and curiously found a bunch of stuff running from another user (not logged in). Killed all of those processes but it hasn't helped. Still the same LO behaviour. I see nothing else in the running processes that seems to have any connection to LO. Were you suggesting that I look for something in particular? On 18/06/2020 11:30, Valter Mura wrote: Hi, Have you tried to check the the current running applications? Il 18 giugno 2020 18:18:09 CEST, Chris Dunn ha scritto: I'm posting this here because I don't believe it is a bug, but something weird that has happened to LibreOffice on my system. I've been using LibreOffice happily on Debian for years. Currently I have LibreOffice 6.4.4.2 40(Build:2) on Debian Testing. Now suddenly for reasons unknown to me, I cannot open LibreOffice at all. I've tried from the menu, and in a terminal, and the outcome is constant. The splash screen shows up, and the progress bar reaches just less than 50% of completion. Then the splash screen disappears from the screen, and I get nothing more. LO is not running. From the terminal I've tried "libreoffice", "libreoffice --writer", and "libreoffice --calc". "libreofice --safe-mode" produces the same result. I've also tried all of these actions as another user on the same box. Same result. I see nothing in my logs. I'm desperate to get LO running again and would appreciate any suggestions. -- Inviato dal mio dispositivo Android con K-9 Mail. Perdonate la brevità. -- Chris Dunn P.O. Box 520, Ocho Rios Post Office, Saint Ann 95, Saint Mary Country Club Charles Town Saint Mary Jamaica mobile : 1 876 354 0639 flow : 1 876 631 2808 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Stopped Running on Debian
Hi, Have you tried to check the the current running applications? Il 18 giugno 2020 18:18:09 CEST, Chris Dunn ha scritto: >I'm posting this here because I don't believe it is a bug, but >something >weird that has happened to LibreOffice on my system. > >I've been using LibreOffice happily on Debian for years. > >Currently I have LibreOffice 6.4.4.2 40(Build:2) on Debian Testing. > >Now suddenly for reasons unknown to me, I cannot open LibreOffice at >all. > >I've tried from the menu, and in a terminal, and the outcome is >constant. The splash screen shows up, and the progress bar reaches just > >less than 50% of completion. Then the splash screen disappears from the > >screen, and I get nothing more. LO is not running. > >From the terminal I've tried "libreoffice", "libreoffice --writer", and > >"libreoffice --calc". "libreofice --safe-mode" produces the same >result. > >I've also tried all of these actions as another user on the same box. >Same result. > >I see nothing in my logs. > >I'm desperate to get LO running again and would appreciate any >suggestions. > >-- > >Chris Dunn > > > > >-- >To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? >https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: >https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- Inviato dal mio dispositivo Android con K-9 Mail. Perdonate la brevità. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Stopped Running on Debian
I'm posting this here because I don't believe it is a bug, but something weird that has happened to LibreOffice on my system. I've been using LibreOffice happily on Debian for years. Currently I have LibreOffice 6.4.4.2 40(Build:2) on Debian Testing. Now suddenly for reasons unknown to me, I cannot open LibreOffice at all. I've tried from the menu, and in a terminal, and the outcome is constant. The splash screen shows up, and the progress bar reaches just less than 50% of completion. Then the splash screen disappears from the screen, and I get nothing more. LO is not running. From the terminal I've tried "libreoffice", "libreoffice --writer", and "libreoffice --calc". "libreofice --safe-mode" produces the same result. I've also tried all of these actions as another user on the same box. Same result. I see nothing in my logs. I'm desperate to get LO running again and would appreciate any suggestions. -- Chris Dunn -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Presentation - video record
Le 16/06/2020 à 20:14, charles meyer a écrit : I'm trying to coordinate a presentation with Libre Presentation. Can Presentation record screens on your laptop like MS Power Point? If so, could you please share those steps? Thank you. Charles. under linux you can use ffmpeg first, after launching the presentation ffmpeg commande under bash ffmpeg -f x11grab -r 30 -s 1920x1080 -i :0.0 -vcodec libx264 out.mkv https://www.linuxtricks.fr/wiki/ffmpeg-la-boite-a-outils-multimedia -- François-Marie -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
Re: [libreoffice-users] Presentation - video record
Suggest using screen recorder software. * 8 Best Screen Recorders for Windows 10 – Free & Paid (2019 rev.) o https://atomisystems.com/screencasting/record-screen-windows-10/ * 9 Best Screen Recorders For Linux o https://itsfoss.com/best-linux-screen-recorders/ * How to record the screen on your Mac o https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208721 There is also the ability to use Impress and export as SVG. While I have only used one page to do this, all objects 'fly in' correctly using Firefox version 77.0.1 (64-bit) on Ubuntu. I assume this means all other controls work. Hope this helps. On 6/16/20 6:35 PM, Cuyahoga Falls wrote: On 6/16/2020 2:14 PM, charles meyer wrote: I'm trying to coordinate a presentation with Libre Presentation. Can Presentation record screens on your laptop like MS Power Point? If so, could you please share those steps? Thank you. Charles. I don't think Presentation can do it natively. I use free third party programs to accomplish this. In Windows, I use a free program called ShareX, which works just fine. You can also do it through Zoom and include your own picture in a corner of the screen through its screen share feature. In Linux, I use Kazam. Virgil -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy