I’m using 7.3.7.2 with Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. I generally have multiple Writer and Calc files open at once. LibreOffice very frequently crashes when using any mode to switch files except File>Open, and sometimes when opening another application. This is a new computer with plenty of RAM.
This is an old post, but the problem appears to have resurfaced in various forms. My problem in particular is that LibreOffice Version: 24.8.2.1 started crashing every few key strokes in Ubuntu 22.04, running KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7 Graphics Platform: X11.
In short, LibreOffice became unusable.
The problem appears to have been the new NVIDIA 550 drivers. I removed the 550 drivers and reinstalled the NVIDIA 535 drivers and the problem went away.
I hope this may help someone.
This driver permutation also solved a problem of mine though a bit differently. I am under Fedora with KDE Plasma. Fedora switched to Wayland but KDE is slightly lagging behind. One of my computer has a now-obsolete nVidia GPU for which the proprietary driver does not support Wayland. My only choice was to use nouveau. Another computer is equipped with a recent GPU. There, nouveau is unusable but the proprietary driver caused crashes … until the last Fedora upgrade to release 41. Now, the latest nVidia driver works like a charm.
You should probably consider update your distro to 24 and KDE to 6.x. KDE with Wayland seems to catch up with GNOME.
@ajlittoz. What you said is that LibreOffice is NOT usable on the long term service (LTS) version of Ubuntu. That on any linux other than the most recent, LibreOffice will start crashing without warning.
There are two levels of LibreOffice. Shouldn’t the STABLE version LibreOffice continue to function on the LTS version of Linux?
Why was a version of LibreOffice that would crash on the Ubuntu LTS version pushed as an update to Ubuntu’s repositories?
If you are trying to scare people into leaving LibreOffice and linux by negating the purpose of the Linux Long Term Service (LTS) versions, you are likely succeeding very well.
The only people that can benefit from this are LibreOffice’s competitors.
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You are mixing terms and responsibilities. At first there is no version of LibreOffice named “stable”. The terms were fresh and “still”. The latter will have usually less new bugs, as they are found and fixed during the fresh phase. But the project advanced and is not the same Ubuntu released at first.
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Ubuntu usually has the idea of only doing “minor” updates in their releases, so no migration from LO 6.4 to 7.x without updating Ubuntu to a newer release and I assume they would not go from 7.x to 24.x for installed software. (You should read about details of their update policies: Not everyting is updating for the whole LTS-support time.)
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But there are Snap/flatpak/appimage wich makes it easier to do updates. But people have to learn of the new problems arising from using containers. (I assume you are using a Snap.)
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In your case it seems LibreOffice has problems with the drivers on the system. There are 2 ways out of this in a diverse world:
- Be very conservative and never change anything/use only function wich are known to work for 10 years, but are not likely to be removed. This implies ignoring all calls, to modernize something.
- Update OS and Software to be on the same level. LTS seems convenient, but mixing with more modern software may have pitfalls.
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And please:: Assume administrators of a setup will need to test their configuration and adapt so they have a working environment. This implies people accepting the role of a sys-admin not only as starting of an installer-software and click “ok” when asked.
Two points also: Do you think, a software is not allowed to be released, because it crashes on your computer? It may run on most other configurations…
And this seems neither a problem for most Ubuntu LTS installs nor of LibreOffice. As @ajlittoz showed another driver may solve your problem. (Who allowed NVidia to sell something, wich crashes LibreOffice on Ubuntu LTS would be a variant of your question…)
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If you want to solve this, you can do bug-reports at first on the Ubuntu-side, so maintainers are notified. But you have to find out from wich source you installed this.
You have a really interesting way of reading a term like
… really scary.
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Giving people the impression that Linux requires manual version checking of all supporting programs for a particular package compatibility is a deliberate misrepresentation.
Linux has had an automated supporting sofware checking system for decades.
Linux distributions use simple commands to update all software that has been pushed to the repo for update. Such as: “apt update” + “apt upgrade” .
Correct specification of the requisite supporting software levels BY LibreOffice for LibreOffice packages pushed to linux distros for update is all that is required. It is the way Linux is designed to operate, and does NOT require users to manually check versions.
TO BE CLEAR: ONE person does the work of versioning of supporting software requirements for the LibreOffice versions pushed to the linux repos, the users see LibreOffice as software that just works with no fuss.
You appear to be trying to convice people that to get LibreOffice to even work, EACH USER must manually perform the version matching that was automated decades ago.
Clearly you want to bury this issue beneath lots of lines, just like LibreOffice’s competitors would like. The usual process is to have multiple accounts inject line after line of irrelevant scree. Keep typing, this is my last post on this subject.
Right and wrong at the same time. Especially Ubuntu is not updating everything for the whole LTS-support, only the core. If one is not satisfied with this he/she may need another repo (added manually), if available.
Ubuntus solution for this is Snap instead of a “regular” install.
IMHO there is nothing pushed:
- TDF publishes and updates 2 versions and provides an archive of older versions
- Debian maintainers pull a version of their liking and modify this (remove java- dependencies, replace python by system installed python …). The result is in their repo.
- Ubuntu maintainer decides not to use the work by Debian as default, but add another version as snap. The changes may differ from the apt-version.
- Admin may decide to use another version and register another repo or go for appimage/flatpak.
All this works usually flawless, but problems start, when clueless users try to update their snaps with apt-commands for installed packages.
No. All I try is, to have more accurate information in our threads, as they are often referenced by google and may be mislead later readers. I appreciate your sharing of your solution, but your ideas, how updates are created in Ubuntu are much to simple.
@Wanderer why talk to someone who has religious beliefs on the topic, that have no need for understanding, only crusades against heretics? The idea of being able to define “requirements” allowing one to eliminate problems, in unlimited range of software and their versions, in the multitude of uses of a package of LibreOffice size, is lunacy - but that doesn’t stop @scribbler from posting their fantasies.
If you are still stuck, a more generalizable solution is to remove LibreOffice 24.8 entirely, eg: “apt purge LibreOffice”.
Then download and install the lower version, prior to the update, that worked. Such as LibreOffice_24.2.7_Linux_x86-64_deb.