Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 7.0 fails to start with --nologo

On Sat, Sep 5, 2020 at 8:05 AM Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com> wrote:
>
:
> soffice is a shell script that tries to determine its location in the
> file system, so that it can call other executables like oosplash and
> javaldx next to itself.  See the section labelled with a "resolve
> installation directory" comment determining the sd_prog variable, which
> shall resolve to the actual directory containing the soffice shell
> script, with any symlinks resolved.
>
> The "double symlink" scenario you outline above works e.g. fine for me
> on Fedora 32.  You need to debug into that shell script code to see why
> it breaks for you.
Thanks for the suggestion.

I ran the command as "bash -x /usr/bin/libreoffice --calc --nologo"
and everything works fine down to the following (last) command, which
opens calc with no logo.  However notice what also appears:

+ exec /opt/libreoffice7.0/program/oosplash --calc --nologo
javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

oosplash is an ELF binary that actually runs (all?) the LibreOffice
programs.  While that seems obscure enough for me, the problem (not
finding a java runtime system)  has nothing to do with the symlinks I
have set up for my keyboard shortcuts so they work independent of
where LO actually lives on my machine.

I don't know why this is happening, but I do know it has been going on
at least since LO 5, and there have been many many comments on this
email list about it being a bug, to which I agree.

I have not seen any errors or other impact of this problem - maybe I
don't use the JRE enough, or the errors are invisible for everything I
am doing, and I find it disturbing that this keeps getting reported
and not fixed.

That said, I consider my problem resolved - no need for further input
here.  If someone wants to comment on the JRE issue, please post in a
new thread, don't complicate this one.

Thanks.

Mark

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