6.2.5 crashes on generic CentOS 7 install

selway · July 11, 2019, 7:25pm

I downloaded the latest 6.2.5 RPM distribution (64bit) from the Libreoffice repository, extracted the tar.gz
and from within the RPM directory, installed it like this:

yum localinstall *rpm

This seemed to proceed smoothly and yum did not report any errors or missing dependencies. Next, I tried to open
LibreOffice, first from the created icon in my KDE menu, but that crashed (the splash screen shows up for a second
and then disappears and nothing else opens). Next, I tried to execute scalc, swriter, and soffice directly from
/opt/libreoffice6.2/program/soffice, but that had the same effect. I tried to find out if there were any missing
dynamic libs, like this:

ldd ./soffice.bin | grep found

which should show any missing libs, but nothing is missing. Any other suggestion?
The interesting thing is, when I installed 6.1.x I don’t have the problem, but I do get a notice that the previous
time I opened the program it crashed. I sent the crash report, which you can find here:

The crash report was successfully uploaded.
You can soon find the report at:
crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/crash_details/0074bc14-59d0-4454-8b4a-f2ec922ef7e2

Thanks!

mikekaganski · July 12, 2019, 5:55am

Did you try to reset user profile?

anon73440385 · July 12, 2019, 11:00am

Just installed 6.2.5 using packages from libreoffice.org on my CentOS 7 test system and cannot reproduce the error and - strange enough - the crashreport above states

Version Version: 6.1.4.2

jfuqua · August 8, 2019, 5:46pm

I have the problem as well, and the answer below also worked for me. The program attempted to submit the dump files, but the service complained that they missed version info.

Appears to be fixed in LibreOffice 6.3, I just installed it and it’s working.

fcosta · December 3, 2019, 11:49am

I have the problem as well, after updating from 5,4 to 6.2. The answer below also works for me: LO then starts in Safe Mode and when opening previous files, proposed to switch to normal mode and it works.

selway · July 12, 2019, 3:14pm

Executing ‘SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen /opt/libreoffice6.2/program/soffice’ from the command line circumvents the problem and 6.2.5 loads correctly when I do that. But I am still not sure what the issue is.