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

Hi,

Thanks for all the feedback.

The good news for me is that uninstalling then reinstalling libreoffice 
3.4.6 from Debian/testing seems to have fixed things.

> Ok, so if you have created parallel installs of LibreOffice
> without using the guide then they might be interacting badly.

I don't think that was the issue. In each ease I uninstalled libreoffice 
before reinstalling, whether from the TDF archives or the Debian 
repository. That said, there are a lot of packages to install and 
uninstall and I didn't pay attention to each of them.

> 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).

Do you actually *need* Java? Or should I say, do I actually need Java to 
use libreoffice for my purposes. In any case, I don't think my crashes 
are related to Java because disabling Java in libreoffice settings never 
made any difference.

Cheers,
Jonathan

> --- 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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