LibreOffice 5.4 is hanging on my Tumbleweed box. I’ve been on tihs OS only a few months, but long years on Linux. A little googling suggested starting in --safe-mode…didn’t help. Removing “user” folder from .config/libreoffice/4…that didn’t work either. Removing “registrymodifications.xcu” file from “user”…didn’t work either.
The app starts, creates the generic splash screen, the loading bar appears at the bottom of the splash and starts moving to the right, but hangs after only 10-20% progress. Task Manager shows 100 MB or so of memory used, but 0% CPU.
Does this happen for a newly created fresh user? Or what happens if you rename ~/.config/libreoffice? Those to rule out it’s something in your config
How do you update TW? Should be
zypper dup --no-allow-vendor-change
If you start it from a terminal window, does it say anything?
starting from a terminal via “libreoffice --safe-mode” doesn’t do anything
“moving/renaming” .config/libreoffice/4/user to “olduser” does nothing…the app starts long enough to create a new “user” folder, then hangs
“moving/renaming” .config/libreoffice/4/user/registrymodifications.xcu to “oldregistrymodifications.xcu” and restarting also does nothing…the app launches and hangs after creating a new copy of registrymodifications.xcu.
I have not tried creating a whole new system user via adduser…not a bad idea. Any thoughts on particular switches to use, or just a plain old “vanilla” user?
I’m just going to give my test user a try, created with YAST as suggested. But my installation looks almost the same as yours…no nl file of course (maar ik kan een beetje van Uw taal. ) you have the libreofficekit file that I don’t…oh hell, here:
OK, some progress. I went into my “testman” user, and LO started up with no issues at all. The registrymodifications.xcu file was 87 lines long. In my .config in my regular user, that file only has seven lines. So that seems to be the problem…or at least a symptom of it. Unfortunately, it looks more a symptom…when I delete everything in .config/libreoffice/4 so there is neither a user folder or the old, renamed “olduser” folder…nothing at all…and then start LO, you’d think I’d get a new user folder with new, default registrymodifications file in it…but I don’t. I get the same, truncated, seven line file that was in the old corrupted folders.
So, what writes registrymodifiications.scu, and why can it do it correctly in the test user’s case but not my regular user?!
thanks and regards,
Dave
PS…can I really not upload an image file from my HDD…insert image wants a URL, doesn’t accept this path?
You can, on https://paste.opensuse.org . On top, click Image, the rest speaks for itself. It gives a link.
Or use a free imagehoster, that provides forums code like imagebam or the like.
All good now, working again. I did cp and chown as you suggested, and everything looked OK, but still hung in exactly the same old bad way as before. Then, almost by accident, I did an “ls -al” instead of “ls -l” and there was a .lock file hanging around that I couldn’t account for. So, I got it out of there and restarted, and all was well.
thanks for your quick response and good suggestions.
) you have the libreofficekit file that I don’t…oh hell, here: