@Heather Ellworth: I just tried to completely remove libreoffice as you suggested, then re-enabled Libre Office's PPA, then reinstalled as you suggested. But to no avail. Libre Office still immediately crashed whenever I try to create a new or open either a Writer document or a Calc spreadsheet.
I notice that one of my laptop's however has not that problem. It's the one of my son. There, Libre Office 7.0 seems to work allright (at least it doesn't crash when I try to create a new Writer doc or a Calc spreadsheet) ... The only 2 machines where I have the issue are machines that underwent several upgrades from LTS to LTS. One, my desktop got upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 up to 20.04 (going through the intermediary upgrades) and my other laptop went through 18.04 -> 20.04. My son's laptop the same as my laptop, except that it has a far more limited selection of software. his laptop has a "vanilla" Ubuntu mate setup + some multimedia codecs and libdvdcss. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1900445 Title: LibreOffice 7 Writer and Calc crash when creating new or opening documents Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I'm using LibreOffice under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I've always used LibreOffice PPA depot instead of Ubuntu's. Up to version 6.4, no issues. When 7.0 became available, LibreOffice got automatically upgraded. Since then, when ever I try to create a new Writer or Calc document or when I try to open such existing document, LibreOffice crashes immediately, then reopens and proposes to recover the document I tried to create/open. If I opt to recover, it crashes again. If I opt to discard, LibreOffice opens up but as soon as I try to either create new/open either a Writer or Calc document, it crashes again. I tried to open LibreOffice in safe-mode but to no avail, same behaviour. I also tried to reset my user profile but again to no avail. I finally tried to disable Java, but here again the crashes continued. Opening Impress or Math Formula does not cause issues. I haven't tried with Draw, nor Base. Attached the crash report I found in /var/crash Any help would be welcome. In awaiting I rolled back to Ubuntu's depot, thus back to LibreOffice 6.4.6.2 (as I'm writing these lines). Thanks in advance & kind regards. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1900445/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
