LibreOffice crash with "invalid pointer" message

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Since I “zypper dup” into 15.0, LibreOffice crash on almost any action: opening an existing file, going to Tools → Options, etcetera. Starting it from konsole I only get messages of the kind

*** Error in `/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin': free(): invalid pointer: 0x00007f0ec3819d78 ***

with only the “pointer” number changing.

What I’ve tried:

  • Clean the user profile so the program generates a new one
  • Started the program on “safe mode”
  • Test with a different (newly created) user
  • Uninstall and reinstall the program
  • Change to the LibreOffice:/6.0/ repo
  • Install/uninstall the kde4/gtk2/gtk3 integration packages

and still crash, even on “safe mode”. It’s completely unusable. For now I’m using the rpms from LibreOffice’s website, but I’d prefer to use openSUSE binaries.

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It seems I’ve solved it!

Somehow, several files from previous installs remained in place, messing up the whole package. In fact, after uninstalling the whole thing (once more) I run “whereis libreoffice” on konsole, and it gave me two addresses! /usr/lib64/libreoffice and /usr/share/libreoffice where still there were with several files, even after uninstalling the the whole package. I just deleted the folders, reinstalled LibO and now everything works!

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Thank you for posting the solution :slight_smile: