LibreOffice 6.0 won't start after Windows 10 update

[rod]

Hi,

After some Windows 10 updates, LibreOffice 6.0 won’t start (neither from file associated to it nor from shorcut to application). When trying to, nothing happens. I tried Base, Calc, LibreOffice, LibreOffice (Safe mode) and Writer and all have the same behaviour.

When I look at processes, I don’t find any that is related to OpenOffice (I am not fully aware of all the possibilities though - I scanned the names and also searched for soffice.* for now). I see that both soffice.exe and soffice.bin appear for a brief moment when I attempt to start anything related to LibreOffice.

I cannot know exactly which LibreOffice 6.0 version I am running since I don’t know where to look without running the program but I usually keep my version updated so it should not be too old.

History of my updates until I rebooted:

1. Boot
2. Windows 10 Update KB4103727.
3. Windows 10 Update KB4103729 (flash player).
4. At this point everything works well but KB4103727 needs a reboot to complet (reboot not done yet).
5. Windows 10 Update KB4134661.
6. There might as well have been a graphic card (Nvidia) driver update.
7. Reboot
8. Cannot start LibreOffice, even in safe mode.
9. Reboot 2 (just in case).
10. Cannot start LibreOffice.

My guess is that the problem is related to KB4103727.

To help debugging, is there a log somewhere that can help knowing why the application quits?

Thanks

[ve3oat]

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[rod]

Hi @ve3oat,

I am running Windows 10 Professional.

Thanks

[BobLavallee]

I’m very curious what would happen if LibreOffice6 were uninstalled (personal settings should be saved) and the latest Windows release of LO6 simply re-installed. In my case, were I running Windows, I’d do the following tests:

1. Uninstall/Re-install LO6. If that fails,
2. Uninstall LO6 and test LO5. If that fails,
3. Rename the LibreOffice folder in my home folder to blah-broken and restart LO6.

[rod]

Oh! Uninstalling/re-installing fixed the problem.

Thanks BobLavallee! (I can’t upvote your comment since I have not enough points… )

[BC1]

Mogens:
Having the same problem as described above, following the latest Win10 update (July 2020), I first opened Windows, then selected Settings.
I then searched for Programs and Features.
In the list “Uninstall or change a program”, right click on the line LibreOffice 6.4.4.2
and select: Repair in the drop down menu.
After completing the Repair process, my LibreOffice works again

[kompilainenn]

Just fill bug about this in bugzilla

[rod]

As @BobLavallee proposed, I uninstalled and re-installed LibreOffice 6 and the problem is now gone.

Party!

[RobertB2]

I see most of the comments come from 2018. I am not sure if my solution would help someone but it was as follow:

As long as you are using Windows 10:

In the Windows Menu List “LibreOffice”, select the option "Disable Hardware Acceleration (OpenGL, OpenCL) in “Configure”

That is it. Hopefully works for you.

Best,

Robert B