Libre Office wont start after upgrade to Ubuntu 19.10

[JoeSixPack]

I receive the following error when attempting to start any Libre Office application:

LibreOffice 6.3 - Fatal Error: The application cannot be started.
Error while reinstalling all previously deployed packages of context user

[JoeSixPack]

The fix for me was this answer;

LibreOffice-Base installation under Ubuntu 19.10

Hello, though in fact your problem isn’t a LibreOffice problem, I’d suggest the following procedure: Open a terminal Execute sudo su - (opens a root shell) Execute dpkg --list | awk '{if ($2 ~ "libreoffice") {print $2}}' | xargs dpkg --purge --force-all python3-uno (package python3-uno added manually to the list of libreoffice packages to be removed) Execute apt --yes autoremove Execute apt --yes install libreoffice This procedure completely removes any package related to LibreOffice and …

I spoke too soon. It worked once, but not again. back to the same error

[JoeSixPack]

Potentially a permissions issue. If I am root it appears to work. But I don’t want to use it in that manner.

[anon73440385]

Hello,

if your LibreOffice installation doesn’t start as non-root user, reset your LibreOffice user profile using one of the following methods:

Prerequesite: Please check in advance, if ownership of all files and directories in $HOME/.config/libreoffice match your current user. From the error description it might be the case, that there are files/directories not owned by your user account, but by root (or some other account).

1. Standard Method (Use your personal user account - not root)

• Open a terminal program (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc.)
• Execute: libreoffice --safe-mode
• Archive your profile expanding Advanced (click on the word Advanced right above Help button) and click Archive User Profile button
• Select option Reset to factory settings
• Activate [x] Reset entire user profile
• Click button Apply Changes and Restart

2. Manual Method (Use, if method 1 fails)

• Open a terminal program (konsole, gnome-terminal, etc.)
• Exceute: cd $HOME/.config/libreoffice
• Execute: mv 4 4.backup.$(date +%Y-%m-%d)
• Execute: libreoffice
• Execute: ls -l HOME/.config/libreoffice/4 to check whether a new profile has been created.

Hope that helps.

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[JoeSixPack]

The standard method fails with the same problem.
The manual method seems to have just worked.
Thanks.