Libreoffice does not start any more since last update

[Stan Schymanski]

Thanks, Matthias, but in my case it did not help:

stan at debian-stan:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall libreoffice
[sudo] password for stan:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 1 not
upgraded.
Need to get 77.4 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 https://cdn.archive.progress-linux.org/packages
dschinn-backports/main amd64 libreoffice amd64 1:6.1.1-1~dschinn1 [77.4 kB]
Fetched 77.4 kB in 2s (29.0 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 346493 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../libreoffice_1%3a6.1.1-1~dschinn1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libreoffice (1:6.1.1-1~dschinn1) over (1:6.1.1-1~dschinn1) ...
Setting up libreoffice (1:6.1.1-1~dschinn1) ...
stan at debian-stan:~$ libreoffice
ERROR 4 forking process


On 20/09/18 09:22, Matthias Schranz wrote:
> I wasn't able to start libreoffice either.
>
> i had following error :
>
> /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so: undefined symbol:
> _ZN14LanguageTagIcu12getIcuLocaleERK11LanguageTagRKN3rtl8OUStringE
>
> but
>
> sudo apt install --reinstall libreoffice
>
> did work for me.
>
> Cheers
> matt
>
>
> On 09/20/2018 09:14 AM, Stan Schymanski wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I ran a normal update on Tuesday, and since then cannot start
>> libreoffice any more:
>>
>> stan at debian-stan:~$ libreoffice
>> ERROR 4 forking process
>>
>> ps aux does not reveal any running soffice instance.
>>
>> I already tried renaming .config/libreoffice and sudo apt-get install
>> --reinstall libreoffice, but it did not help.
>>
>> Can anybody help? This is a really critical problem for me right now.
>> Thanks already!
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Stan
>>
>>
>>
>

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