Libreoffice does not start any more since last update

[Stan Schymanski]

I also found this discussion about apparmor profiles, libreoffice and
backporting:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/linux.debian.bugs.dist/$20$23883800$20%7Csort:date/linux.debian.bugs.dist/LrIPYSQT-iw/yk1wasWlAwAJ

Could something have gone wrong in the backporting of libreoffice or
apparmor in progress?

Stan


On 21/09/18 14:12, Stan Schymanski wrote:
> 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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