LibreOffice does not start in a KDE 4 session

I'm seeing slightly different here -

Main LO window displayed normally the first time I started it. Now, the window contents are black.

The Writer window displays but the window contents are black so the application is unusable.

For what it's worth, Calc starts normally.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Further to comment #2, Writer opened correctly when I double mouse-clicked on a .odt file. Now Writer opens from both the main menu and Alt-F2.

The LO main window still starts up with black contents and needs to be terminated after it appears to hang.

In my case I could get the start center to launch properly, but nothing else, but it would work properly by going into Konqueror and opening an ods or odt file.

On my system, launching from the icon seems to be failing with an uninitialized window. If I launch it from a console, sometime I see that same problem, sometime I get the black window Paul described, and occasionally it works properly.

So I think we're all seeing the same issue, it's just that the symptoms can vary.

I have startcenter as a panel icon and it does not work as the original poster says. From the Application Launcher Writer also fails in the dame way. Calc works. When clicking on a libreoffice file that works correctly. I have attached the /home/gld/.local/share/applications/ desktop files for anyone who wants to inspect them.

Well, I can only attach one file, So this is fir Writer which has the problem.

If you remove libreoffice-kde package, it will start working again. It'll just be ugly. ;)

On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Jason Straight <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> libreoffice

Thankyou that fixed my problems!

George Dvorak

Bit of a hack, but I copied libkde4be1lo.so and libvclplug_kde4lo.so from 4.2.1 into /usr/lib/libreoffice/programs and LibreOffice loads again.

Odd that the same version of LO seems to work OK in 13.10.

It has a severe impact on a large portion of Ubuntu users.

My mistake, LibreOffice 4.2.3 rc3 does not work in Kubuntu 13.10 either, but copying the 2 files I mentioned earlier also fix it. One thing I have noticed is that all LibreOffice windows now appear behind the currently focused window.

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/1300283

@Mark Fraser: How can these files be missing on your install? Checking the libreoffice-kde 1:4.2.3~rc2-0ubuntu1 deb files for trusty from:

 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/170943415/libreoffice-kde_4.2.3%7Erc2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
 http://launchpadlibrarian.net/170938878/libreoffice-kde_4.2.3%7Erc2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

clearly contain both.

And since some users (e.g. comment 13) mention 4.2.3~rc3 (which as of now is only available from the PPAs) to miss the files too, I also checked the *.debs in the PPA and the libs are there on both i386 and amd64.

@Björn Michaelsen They are not missing, but the versions of libkde4be1lo.so and libvclplug_kde4lo.so in 4.2.3-rc2 and rc3 seem to be the cause of the problem, coping those files from 4.2.1 allows LibreOffice to run.

@Mark Fraser: libkde4be1lo.so seems essentially unchanged since the last release, could you check if only copying the old libvclplug_kde4lo.so helps?

There have been KDE fixes for fdo#73115, fdo#45935 and fdo#74416 on vcl/unx/kde4 since libreoffice-4-2-1 which might be responsible.

@Björn Michaelsen: Yes, I reinstalled the newer libreoffice-kde package and then just copied libvclplug_kde4lo.so from 4.2.1 and it works.

reverting 7dba6e0a for now, to at least let LibreOffice start on KDE4 (see upstream bug for details)

LO 4.2.3.3 installed and all seems to be working fine now. Thanks Björn.

I'm still having the same issues.

Rename /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_kde4lo.so to /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_kdelo.so fixes the problem with 4.2.3~rc3-ubuntu1

The name seems to be changed in this way in 4.2.3.2 and onwards

Oops, my suggestion probably just hides the problem, libreoffice starts, but looking closer, it seems to lack KDE integration.

@Paul White: Fix Committed is not Fix released. FWIW, this is the (still unreleased) hotfix:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-openoffice/libreoffice.git;a=commit;h=a5f78a1e5b81756cf924be311e3a4cb6bad934f0

A hotfixed version is currently building in trusty-proposed:

 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2

It actually finished on amd64 and i386, so you are invited to download the libreoffice-kde debs and test them.

Further to my comment in #25 where the problem *disappeared*, yes, I did realise the fix has not been released, I can confirm that the latest build also works here. Calc, Writer, Base, Impress and the main LO application all open correctly.

Although I am not sure that my input is valid at this point as the fix doesn't actually fix anything here because the initial release of 4.2.3.3 also worked correctly. </confused>

This bug was fixed in the package libreoffice - 1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2

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libreoffice (1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * revert 7dba6e0a, to at least let LibreOffice start on KDE4 (LP: #1300283)
 -- Bjoern Michaelsen <email address hidden> Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:07:13 +0200

I am experiencing this bug with the Libreoffice package version 4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2. The window borders launch but there is no window content except my desktop.

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. According to apt-cache I am using 4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu2 but libreoffice says 4.2.4.2

it has stopped working here as well. The only part of LibreOffice I can launch now is the launch center as it was when it broke last time.

I use latest Lubuntu 14.04 and the only thing that comes up is the start window where I can select what kind of document I want to create. Nothing happens when I click on the Create buttons.