I believe I've solved my particular incarnation of the bug - the problem was that I was using the XDG environment variables to configure an alternate, system-wide location for a customized GNOME menu that included in the normal system menu, and because this location was not world-writable, Libreoffice could not start.
I have given up on the XDG method and have resorted to just dropping .desktop files into the normal menu hierarchy, which is not as clean but I suppose it's necessary. (Someone really needs to take a look at some of these Ubuntu problems relating to system-wide configuration defaults - it's a damn shame that the only way for me to customize people's experience is to resort to fairly messy hacks, even when I have a framework like Puppet in place to implement them as cleanly as possible). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/792947 Title: The application cannot be started. A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/792947/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
