Accepted the daily update, this time to kernel 4.4.126-48 plus several other updates on 18.04.2018
Starting LibreOffice shows it to be corrupted, blinking back and forth, menus going round and round, etc. All LibreOffice applications are affected.
This on a AMD Ryzen 7 system, any similar experiences ??
Sounds like a graphics driver issue.
Try to uninstall drm-kmp-default and see if it helps. I think I read there are some (known) problems with the latest one.
First tried unconditional update of all LibreOffice files in Yast, no change, still corrupted
uninstall drm-kmp-default … not a good idea, after uninstall LibreOffice still corrupted, reboot, black screen with a big mouse pointer, game over.
re-install system, with all updates via repositories … libreOffice corrupted and system hangs when mouse pointer touches something not to its liking, I had this particular hanging up problem when first installed 42.3 but updates seemed to mitigate the issue.
LibreOffice is the only one displaying these problems so far …
And what desktop are you using?
You shouldn’t have had to reinstall the system. You probably should have been able to login to IceWM (press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace twice to get back to the login screen) or text mode (Ctrl+Alt+F1), or you could have tried booting with “nomodeset” to use a generic driver…
Just installing drm-kmp-default again should have fixed your system.
Anyway, try to uninstall libreoffice’s GNOME and/or KDE integration depending on what’s installed:
libreoffice-kde4
libreoffice-gtk3
libreoffice-gnome
Looks as though we can close this thread as LibreOffice is again working as it should, why it stopped or started working is a mystery though …