LibreOffice crashes on attempt to open .odt files

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As of today, after updating LibreOffice to 4.1.3.2-2.2 from LibreOffice:Stable/openSUSE_12.3 repository I can’t open any previously created documents since LibreOffice crashes without error message.

Tried deleting both ./config/libreoffice/* and .kde4/share/config/LibreOfficerc but it doesn’t help.

Any helpful advice would be appreciated.

Config:

  • openSUSE 12.3 64-bit
  • KDE 4.11 from KDE:Release:411/openSUSE_12.3
  • Oracle Java 1.7 update 45

Extract from .xsession-errors


CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
/usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/../program/libunordflo.so: undefined symbol: librdf_world_set_raptor_init_handler
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
CLIENT: Task: Task::done()
CLIENT: Task: emitting finished
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This symbol is part of librdf/redland, but only since version 1.0.16 AFAIK. So check which version you have installed:

rpm -qi librdf0 libredland0
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wolfi323 thank you for that hint - installing librdf0 from X11:/common:/Factory/openSUSE_12.3 solved the problem.

However, if it would be helpful for other users I’ve previously tried installing librdf0 1.0.16 through Yast 1-click-install but it seems that there is a conflicting/obsolete package libredland0-1.0.15 in official Postgres-9 repo. Downloading the forementioned librdf0 package and rebuilding the local repository solved this glitch.

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But 12.3 comes with libredland0-1.0.16, does that not work?
You would have to uninstall librdf0 again of course to install that.

Maybe you accidentally switched libredland0 to that version 1.0.15 from the Postgres-9 repo, causing the crash?

The libredland0 package was just renamed to librdf0 for 13.1.

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Probably I switched to Pg repo version at some point.

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I have regularly found that LibreOffice will not open older .odt files; fortunately, opening them with AbiWord, saving them as .doc files and re-opening them with LibreOffice solves the problem. So, though this may be a ‘new’ problem, it has existed in some form or another for quite a while.

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On 2013-11-19 23:16, john hudson wrote:
>
> I have regularly found that LibreOffice will not open older .odt files;
> fortunately, opening them with AbiWord, saving them as .doc files and
> re-opening them with LibreOffice solves the problem. So, though this may
> be a ‘new’ problem, it has existed in some form or another for quite
> a while.

I have never seen this problem. I even have .sdw files dated 2001 and
they open just fine.

If you can not open .odt files created with a different version, you
found a terrible bug that you have to report, because OpenOffice /
LibreOffice prides themselves being superior as a document standard to
Microsoft Office because they can perfectly handle old files.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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john hudson wrote:
>
> I have regularly found that LibreOffice will not open older .odt files;

Is this the reason ?:-

LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including
support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and
Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.

http://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/

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GNOME 3.6.2
openSUSE Release 12.3 (Dartmouth) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.10-1.16-desktop

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On 2013-11-20 04:03, vazhavandan wrote:
> john hudson wrote:
>>
>> I have regularly found that LibreOffice will not open older .odt files;
>
> Is this the reason ?:-
>
>

LibreOffice 4.x drops a few long-deprecated features, including
> support for legacy binary StarOffice files, export to legacy Word and
> Excel (version 6.0/95), and legacy ODMA document management.

Oh. I think this deserves going into the distro release notes.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Carlos E. R. wrote:

> Oh. I think this deserves going into the distro release notes.
>
+1. The Libreoffice statement is also very vague in nature :slight_smile:

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GNOME 3.10.1
openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.11.6-4-desktop

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On 2013-11-22 05:26, vazhavandan wrote:
> Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> Oh. I think this deserves going into the distro release notes.
>>
> +1. The Libreoffice statement is also very vague in nature :slight_smile:
>

Well, you could write a bugzilla against the release notes and request
this addition :wink:

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)