Libreoffice does not start any more since last update

[Stan Schymanski]

It seems that something is indeed wrong with apparmor. When I removed
and reinstalled it, I found:

Setting up apparmor (2.11.0-3+deb9u2) ...
update-rc.d: warning: start and stop actions are no longer supported;
falling back to defaults
AppArmor parser error for
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.soffice.bin in
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.soffice.bin at line 89:
Could not open 'abstractions/dri-enumerate'
Warning from /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine
(/etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine line 362): Unconfined exec
qualifier (ux) allows some dangerous environment variables to be passed
to the unconfined process; 'man 5 apparmor.d' for details.
AppArmor parser error for
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.soffice.bin in
/etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.libreoffice.program.soffice.bin at line 89:
Could not open 'abstractions/dri-enumerate'
Warning from /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine
(/etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine line 362): Unconfined exec
qualifier (ux) allows some dangerous environment variables to be passed
to the unconfined process; 'man 5 apparmor.d' for details.
Processing triggers for systemd (239-9~dschinn1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.6.1-2) ...

/etc/apparmor.d/dri-* does indeed not exist, whereas
https://packages.debian.org/sid/sh4/apparmor/filelist lists dri-common
and dri-enumerate as part of the package.

Any clues?

Stan


On 21/09/18 14:27, Stan Schymanski wrote:
> 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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