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LibreOffice 4.1.x does not start without libsolve installed

Bug #1221014 reported by Harry
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libreoffice (Ubuntu)
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Björn Michaelsen

Bug Description

The latest LibreOffice (versions 4.1.0-2ubuntu1 and 4.1.1-0ubuntu1) do not start in the Gnome-shell DE.
I have three different setups (one desktop with NVidia, one with ATI and one laptop with Intel),
all with Saucy development distro with no additional PPA's enabled.
LibreOfiice 4.1.x works in none of them.

For example LibreOffice Writer just does not start at all.
The cursor spins for a few seconds, then nothing.
Sometimes I can see the LibreOffice starting logo and then nothing.

However, downgrading to the previous Saucy version 4.0.2-0ubuntu5 helps, and all is well again.

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Harry (harry33) wrote : Re: LibreOffice 4.1.x crashes on startup - Gnome-shell DE

This seems to be a crash right after startup.
I have tried to rename the libreoffice profile directory, but that does not help.

summary: - LibreOffice 4.1.x does not start in Gnome-shell
+ LibreOffice 4.1.x crashes on startup - Gnome-shell DE
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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote :

Please install libreoffice-dbg and provide at stacktrace with apport, see:

 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LibreOfficeBugWrangling

for details.

Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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Harry (harry33) wrote :

Unfortunately I cannot do the stacktrace.
However, this is error message I get from terminal:

javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin:
error while loading shared libraries: liblpsolve55.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So, does LibreOffice_4.1 really need JRE?
It should not!

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Harry (harry33) wrote :

After downgrading to the version 4.0.2-0ubuntu5 this is what get in terminal:

Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

However, the warning does not prevent the writer from starting just fine.

So the problem must be the shared object file: liblpsolve55.so.

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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote : Re: LibreOffice 4.1.x does not start without libreoffice-calc installed

This is totally unrelated to gnome-shell, please dont write such misleading summaries next time without countertesting on e.g. Unity.

The reason is that because of mergedlibs some dependencies much be moved from libreoffice-calc to -core, namely lp-solve. Installing lp-solve manually (or -calc, which pulls in lpsolve) should work around the problem.

Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
assignee: nobody → Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
summary: - LibreOffice 4.1.x crashes on startup - Gnome-shell DE
+ LibreOffice 4.1.x does not start without libreoffice-calc installed
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Harry (harry33) wrote :

Actually, I did not write LibreOffice_4.1 does not start ONLY in Gnome-shell DE.
I did not test it in any other DE, so I did not make other claims either.
In fact, I only use Gnome-shell.

As to this bug.
The correct solution is to rebuild libreoffice-writer to depend on lpsolve.

summary: - LibreOffice 4.1.x does not start without libreoffice-calc installed
+ LibreOffice 4.1.x does not start without libsolve installed
Harry (harry33)
Changed in libreoffice (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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