Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.1.2 and Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)

On 10/24/2013 05:18 PM, sberg wrote:
> I assume you have installed some LibreOffice extension for spell/grammar
> checking or similar that uses Java.  That might explain it if you experience
> crashes now when typing in Writer after upgrading to Mavericks (which
> appears to replace any pre-existing Java installation with a "download it
> now" stub).
>
> Can you provide a list of LibreOffice extensions you have installed ("Tools
> - Extension Manager...")?

Meanwhile found out that it is the wiki-publisher extension (which comes 
bundled with LibreOffice by default) that requires a Java VM to be 
instantiated in the LibreOffice process as soon as you type the first 
letter in Writer.  (See 
<http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2013-October/056991.html> 
"Why typing in Writer instantiates the JVM on Mac OS X" for details.)

So, one quick fix for people who are stuck with Writer keeping crashing 
would probably be to move away the wiki-publisher extension that is 
bundled in the LibreOffice installation.  To do that in Finder, first 
make sure LibreOffice is not running, then navigate to the LibreOffice 
(aka LibreOffice.app) application, from the right-click menu select 
"Show Package Contents", there navigate from "Contents" to "share" to 
"extensions" and move the "wiki-publisher" folder to the trash (or move 
it to some other place outside the "extensions" folder).  Then create a 
new folder (with more or less arbitrary name, you can use "Dummy") 
within the "extensions" folder.  When you start LibreOffice again, the 
problem should be gone (it might show a "LibreOffice quit unexpectedly" 
dialog once directly while starting, which is an unrelated problem and a 
different story, in which case just press the "Reopen" button).

Stephan

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