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Hi,

Don't know if it's going to help you, but I have experienced some
unexplainable crashes in the past which were "cured" by erasing the
user configuration folders/data in ~/.config/libreoffice. Word of
caution: erasing that folder will reset all settings to their default
value. And I do mean all of them. One test you could do is to rename
the folder, launch LO and see if the problem still exists; if it does,
erase the new config folder and rename your previous one back, at least
you will not loose anything.

I hope this helps.

Rémy Gauthier.

Le jeudi 06 juillet 2017 à 13:24 -0700, Girvin Herr a écrit :
Paul,

No, I haven't seen that. I filed it away for future reference if I
ever 
look at ODBC again, thanks. I looked at ODBC years ago and decided
the 
JDBC Connector was better suited for me. It has been working for me
for 
a long time until now.

I still think my problem lies in the many Slackware packages, both 
security and non-security, I installed on my workstation between when
LO 
was last working on June 19 and the day before I noticed it stopped 
working, July 4. This morning, I verified LO 5.2.6.2 does work on my 
Slackware Linux laptop with updates installed up to the beginning of 
May. That is about a month before the last time LO worked, so it
should 
be a good starting point. My plan is to install the Slackware
updates 
one at a time, checking if LO is still functional between each one.
When 
and if LO stops working, the package I just installed is most likely
the 
culprit and I can back it out again, hopefully restoring LO to 
functionality. I can then try backing out the same package on my 
workstation and hopefully get it working again. At least that is my
plan.

Thanks again.
Girvin


On 07/06/2017 10:57 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
Nothing specific, but it is an edge case sometimes missed when 
updating/adding other linux software.

Have you seen 
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/79135/how-do-i-set-up-a-odb
c-connector-for-mariadb-in-base/


On 7/6/2017 1:11 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:
Thanks for your response. groups? In what way? Anything specific
should be aware of from your experience? Does something with LO 
require a special group, like k3b "suggests" a "burner" group,
which 
I would need to be a member of to burn CDs? I just checked the
group 
file and didn't see anything out of the ordinary or any group I 
should be a member of and am not.

Since this problem seems ubiquitous across many LO versions and 
across other user accounts on my machine that I tested, I am now 
doubting this issue is a LO problem. Although it may be a
problem 
which only LO encounters, since no other apps, including AOO,
are 
having any problems. I am going off to do some troubleshooting
with 
another similar computer which has not been updated yet since the
end 
of March. Hopefully, it will work and I can incrementally install
the 
security updates one at a time while retesting LO for crashing
after 
each installation. Hopefully, the culprit update package will
show 
itself. So, I may be off for a while, but if I discover anything,
will post it here on this thread. I will keep your suggestion in
mind 
as I am troubleshooting.

Thanks.
Girvin


On 07/06/2017 07:54 AM, Paul D. Mirowsky wrote:
Just a shot in the dark.

May want to look to see all proper groups are set.



On 7/5/2017 6:56 PM, Girvin Herr wrote:


On 07/05/2017 02:14 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 05/07/2017 à 01:20, Girvin Herr a écrit :

Hi Girvin,


Now that I upgraded to LO 5.2.6.2 from LO 5.1.6, every
time I try 
to log
in to Mariadb to access my database, LO crashes hard.
This worked 
fine
in 5.1.6 and it still works now in OpenOffice 4.1.3. I
checked 
the Java
config under Options and it is fine. I tried deleting the
profile
directory and starting from scratch. It still crashed. LO
also 
crashes
when I use the "Test Connection" button in the database 
configuration
dialog to try to log in to Mariadb.

Any ideas before I return to 5.1.6?
Could be several things, although off the cuff, LO5.2.x was
known to
crash in certain circumstances with JDKu112, so either:
- revert back to LO5.1.x or else
- try updating your JDK to a much more recent one and see
if that 
makes
a difference with LO5.2.x, or else
- move to LO5.3.x and a current JDK.


Why do I mention a Java problem ? Because the devs changed
the 
version
number recognition pattern for JDK/JVM instantiation
somewhere 
between
5.1 and 5.2, and this is what caused crashing for some.
This was 
fixed
in 5.3. Of course, it could all be specific to your
Slackware 
setup...

Alex


Alex,
Thanks for your prompt response. I have been working on this 
problem all morning. I first upgraded jdk-8u112 with jdk-
8u131 with 
the same results. I then tried LO 5.2.7.2 with the same
results. I 
then tried LO 5.3.4.2 with the same results. I then upgraded
the 
MySQL Connector from 5.1.40 to 5.1.42 with the same results. 
Nothing I do seems to affect whatever is causing LO to crash.
also started LO from a console to see if LO spit out any
pertinent 
messages when it crashed - none.

Whatever is happening here, it is broad. I even tried to use
my 
OpenOffice Base odb file with the same LO results. Now this
file 
works fine in AOO.

There are two datapoints I had not thought of when I posted
my 
message yesterday. One is that I successfully edited and
printed a 
report on 6/19/17 with LO 5.2.6.2. So, it was working at that
time.

The other is that I upgraded glibc from version 2.23 build 1
to 
2.23 build 2 yesterday, before I noticed LO crashing. But I
tried 
returning to the old glibc version and LO still crashed, so I
doubt 
glibc was the cause. The other Slackware packages that I
changed 
yesterday are: bind, irssi, mozilla-firefox, openvpn, sudo,
the 
Linux kernel, httpd, libcgroup, libcrypt, mkinitrd, 
mozilla-thunderbird, nasm, and pkg-config. None of these
should 
have affected LO, but...

There is something else going on besides Base crashing. I
was 
checking the "Tools" | "Options" with nothing loaded and when
I got 
to the bottom item, "Internet" | "MediaWiki", LO crashed when
selected it. I wasn't even close to MySQL or Base at the
time.

BTW: I am running a Dual-core Athlon CPU, 32-bit ix86 Linux
and 
Java, 8GB RAM, and 10% of 1TB disk space used. So it
shouldn't be a 
lack of resources. Besides, as I said, OpenOffice is still
running 
fine. My problem with using AOO, is that it does not have the
Base 
Report Generator I need to print my reports.

Hope this helps narrow this problem down. I am about to issue
a bug 
report on this. It is certainly repeatable, if frustrating.
Thanks.
Girvin











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