LibreOffice hangs on startup
Recently, all my LibreOffice applications have started hanging on startup, while displaying the logo screen. App CPU usage is around 20% (I have an i7 chip with 4 cores, and 8 threads), according to Task Manager. No matter how long I wait, app startup does not complete and I end up having to stop LibreOffice application through Task Manager (the application icon does not appear on the task bar).
I've tried repairing, uninstalling and reinstalling LibreOffice, rebooting, renaming the AppData\Roaming\LibreOffice directory, but nothing works.
I'm using Windows 10 Pro 64-bit (the 1511 release, not the new 1607 anniversary update). I'm running LibreOffice x86_64 version 6.2.1.2.
Any suggestions?
Please test disabling OpenGL, Menu/Tools/Options/LibreOffice/View
Thanks for your response. How do I disable OpenGL? I can't even start the application, so I can't get to the Options via the menu. Is it possible to do this from the command line?
In case anyone else makes the same suggestion, I don't believe that OpenGL is the problem here.
Of course, I could be wrong, but I've tried disabling OpenGL in registrymodifications.xcu and in the registry as a policy as well - and neither made the slightest difference.
Oops! Just noticed that I entered the LibreOffice version number incorrectly. For the record, I'm using LibreOffice x86_64 version 5.2.1.2. Sorry for any confusion!
Unfortunately, I don't yet have enough karma to edit my original post with updates. :-( I noticed that release 5.2.2.2 was released today, so I have that a try. No luck... Has anyone else had prolonged success with the 64-bit Windows version of LibreOffice 5.2.1 or 5.2.2? For former did work for me initially. Maybe it was a Windows update that broke it?
You may have more luck disabling OpenCL
Open a terminal and run:
SAL_DISABLE_OPENCL=1 soffice
and from the Tools -> Options -> OpenCL config area, disable use of OpenCL. Should start normally after that.