Re[2]: [libreoffice-users] Why is LibreOffice so susceptible to config errors

It's openSUSE 42.2 and they all have their own accounts

with their home directories on a nfs4 share and LO 5.3.2

form OpenSUSE's repos




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Mal



      
-----Original Message----- 
> From: "Stephan Bergmann" <sbergman@redhat.com> 
> To: "malcolm moore" <st-malcolm.moore@whsg.info>, users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Date: 08/05/17 11:01 
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Why is LibreOffice so susceptible to config errors 
>
> On 05/08/2017 11:30 AM, malcolm moore wrote:
> > Why is LibreOffice so susceptible to config errors. We have about 3 or 4 students a day
> >
> > coming to us because LibreOffice won't start. Deleting ~/.config/libreoffice always does
> >
> > the trick but it's an enormous pain.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there anything I can do, bear in mind these are students so they will just log out
> >
> > or turn the machine off with LibreOffice running no matter what I say !
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Each machine is used by up to a dozen students each day. Which when you multiply
> >
> > 500 machines by 1300 students, 3 or 4 hangs a day doesn't seem that much but it's
> >
> > what people remember about LO
>
> What OS, what version of LO?  Does each student have their own account, 
> or does each machine have one account that is used (sequentially) by 
> multiple students?
>
> Especially if the latter, that would mean that ~/.config/libreoffice is 
> very unlikely to contain any sensitive information anyway.  In which 
> case it could be useful to zip up such a failing ~/.config/libreoffice 
> directory (or at the very least the contained 
> 4/user/registrymodifications.xcu file) and mail it to me.  Maybe that 
> would give us an idea why you experience so frequent failure.


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