Libreoffice does not start any more since last update

[Stan Schymanski]

It seems to be a problem with apparmor, as it runs if I start using:

firejail --apparmor libreoffice

On this site, someone suggests to purge and reinstall
libreoffice-common, which contains the apparmor profile:
http://debian.2.n7.nabble.com/Bug-907303-apparmor-libreoffice-stops-start-with-last-update-td4377397.html

However, apt-get remove libreoffice-common wants to remove gnome as
well, which I am not comfortable with. :-)

Any ideas?

Cheers

Stan


On 20/09/18 12:31, Stan Schymanski wrote:
> 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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