LibreOffice cannot open password protected file (spreadsheet)

Hi all,

With recent upgrading to newer snapshots, I ran into a problem. Memory taken by LibreOffice (soffice.bin) keeps increasing but the document has never been opened when trying to open a password protected spreadsheet file. The file extension (xlsx or ods) does not matter. It is not caused by wrong password because I have tried with a newly created document with very simple password.

This happened a while ago but I could not recall the details. I can only remember that upgrading to LibreOffice 6.1 does not solve the problem. And the issue lasts to present. So I think the problem may not be related to LO but openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Does anyone know what is the problem and how to solve it?

TIA
Regards,
CnZhx

opensuse:tumbleweed:20180726

I have just created a simple one page spreadsheet with LO Calc and saved it with a password. It only opens when the correct password is supplied. It then opens correctly.

Are you “updating” or “upgrading”? What repositories are you using?

Hi, rayH,

Thank you for the confirmation.

With your information, I checked my installation with a new account in my system. The Calc and password protected function work smoothly. But I have tried to remove the user-specific configuration folder (~/.config/libreoffice) with no avail. Then, I switched back to normal user and tested, surprisingly, it works.

Still have no clue.

Thank you.

Hello, rayH,

Could you please confirm one thing for me? I recently found that LO would have memory leak when open a password protected spreadsheet file when opening it through “File” -> “Recent Documents”. Opening by directly clicking the spreadsheet file would not cause the memory leak.

All the best,
CNZHX