tag 865303 + unreproducible retitle 865303 libreoffice: Libreoffice crashes silently upon startup thanks
Hi, On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 07:21:20PM +0200, Eduardo Casais wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:12:20 +0200 Rene Engelhard <[email protected]> wrote: > >On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:39:03PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > >> There were linux and glibc updates indeed. No idea whether they broke it, > >> can you > >> try reverting them one-by-one and whether it fixes it? > >> > >> Guess I need to setup a oldstable VM and try... > > > >Some other reports come in for this for other packages. A interesting data > >point > >would be whether this also works without Java. (Either downgrade, disable > >Java > >and test after the upgrade. Also after upgrade re-enable Java and see. Or > >remove the > >LO Java stuff...) > > > >Will try that at home, too, though after installing a oldstable... [...] > Here is an addition to the error report. > > 7) The problem was provisorily solved in the following way: > > In Synaptic, force the re-installation to a downgraded version of all > following packages: > > linux-image-3.0.16-4-amd64 to 3.16.43-2 > libffi6 to 3.1-2+b2 > multiarch-support, locales, libc6 and libc-bin to 2.19-18+deb8u9 > > I did not try a systematic search for the smallest set of packages that > would bring LibreOffice working again. Basically, it was a partial "undo" of > the 2017-06-19 standard Debian update. I installed a fresh jessie inside a libvirt VM. The installer alraedy applies the security updates - thus I got the new kernel and libc6 etc. (libffi isn't used by LO) Starts fine for me... -> unreproducible Regards, Rene
