Hello,
I’m having this problem, not only with openSUSE, not only with LibreOffice and not only with KDE 5 (tried GNOME, Xfce, LXDE, IceWM, MATE, KDE 4).
I had the same problem with Arch and Fedora.
The problem is pretty simple: when I start LibreOffice, the mouse pointer stops and the whole X server crashes, showing me SDDM (or GDM). LibreOffice outputs nothing. The problem only appears when starting Writer, Impress & co. both from the DE menu or LibreOffice main window.
The same thing happens when the DE is under stress (this only happened once when I was browsing an heavy website with Firefox). I tried the following:
- Alt+F2 then
kdesu libreoffice
or
gksu libreoffice
depending on the environment (same with terminal); selecting Writer, Calc, Impress & co. causes X server crash;
- Alt+F2 then
libreoffice > ~/libreoffice.log
Selecting Writer, Calc, Impress & co. causes X server crash; a libreoffice.log file is created in my home with no content;
I am using an AMD Radeon R7 graphics card with xf86-video-ati as driver, on a Lenovo Z50-75.
This terminal session may be useful (contains /var/log/Xorg.0.log)
Also, when I re-login to the environment, a xmessage window is shown: Couldn’t start ksmserver. Check your installation.
When I click on okay, X crashes again, but on the next re-login the window does not appear. Obviously this happens only with KDE. The Xorg version is the latest on the main Leap repository:
altermetax@linux-0pix:~> Xorg -version
X.Org X Server 1.17.2
Release Date: 2015-06-16
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: openSUSE SUSE LINUX
Current Operating System: Linux linux-0pix.suse 4.1.13-5-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 26 16:35:17 UTC 2015 (49475c3) x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.1.13-5-default root=UUID=4b751cef-55d0-4dd7-b93c-d76fcbd17f7c ro resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/bac83ca3-1bd2-48e4-800e-d91bf74637dd splash=silent quiet showopts
Build Date: 26 November 2015 04:36:11PM
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
I know LibreOffice has some Java code, so the Java version may be useful:
altermetax@linux-0pix:~> java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_60"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_60-b27)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.60-b23, mixed mode)
Everything worked with openSUSE 13.2 KDE 4.
If I disable desktop effects from the KDE system settings, when I reproduce the problem, on SDDM a window without borders appears with a segfault from kdeinit5 caused by ksmserver; I can’t copy-paste the backtrace because I am out of the X session there and so I can’t do it.
Please help me! At the moment I am using Calligra, but I prefer LibreOffice…