Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi :)
Ok, so if you have created parallel installs of LibreOffice without using the guide then they might be interacting badly.  I don't think it's that but it might be worth uninstalling the downloaded version and then reinstall it but following the parallel install guide this time.  
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel

There is a chapter about bibliographies and such in the official guides.  Chapter 12 in the Writer Guide
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide
I don't think that is going to help either but it might be worth a quick flick through and perhaps skim read parts.

Frequent crashing usually indicates a bad version of java.  Java 6_21 seems to be the best for older versions of LibreOffice but i think you need the 7_3 (or around there, most recent is best).  Unfortunately java gets compromised so fast nowadays that the last few versions haven't even been released before Oracle have had to start working on the next version.  So it takes a bit of digging around on the Oracle website (or via java.com).  I found these links through a quick googles search but i'm not sure they are the latest or best links
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/java-se-jdk-7-download-432154.html
http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml

On the wiki-page for documentation they have 3rd party documentation alongside early releases of official documentation and this section might be useful for attcking the problem from a programming perspective
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#Programmers

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 8/4/12, Jonathan Schultz <jonathan@imatix.com> wrote:

From: Jonathan Schultz <jonathan@imatix.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 8 April, 2012, 6:35

Unfortunately I'm still not out of the woods.

The TDF version of LibreOffice isn't detected by bibus. Which means no 
bibliography, which is pretty much a deal-breaker.

So I played with the debian/testing version again, and managed to get it 
to not crash with my file by deleting my user profile. Then I rebuilt 
the profile... and it started crashing again. And now if I start again 
with a virgin profile, it still crashes.

I tried to look at the source for bibus (it's all in python) to work out 
how it detects whether Libre/Open-Office is present, but don't know 
enough about the LibreOffice API to know what I'm really looking for.

So I still have a basically unusable system. :(

On 08/04/12 11:34, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Phew, i'm glad to hear you solved it.  Presumably you copied the old User Profile to the new place to get your previous settings and Extensions back?  You can always try the repo version another time and then perhaps do a parallel install after that maybe.
> Regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
> --- On Sun, 8/4/12, Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com>  wrote:
>
> From: Jonathan Schultz<jonathan@imatix.com>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Some documents make libreoffice-writer crash
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Date: Sunday, 8 April, 2012, 1:11
>
>> You might have already tried this but it looks like you didn't
>> mention it.  Can you download the TDF's official version instead of
>> using one from the repos?
>> http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=deb-x86〈=en-GB
>
> I have tried it now, and it works! Thank you very much. It messed with
> my desktop integration a little and put the configuration files in a
> different place, but when I'd worked that out it all looked good.
>
> I didn't bother with the parallel installation though, actually didn't notice that you'd shown me that link until it was too late. I guess I can go back to the debian distro when they get 3.4.6?
>
>> Annoyingly the main downloads page tries to give me the .Rpm instead
>> of the .Deb but also it lets you choose the more stable 3.4.6 instead
>> of the 3.5.2.
>
> It worked for me, ie offered me the .deb installation.
>
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>


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