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*Gnome Documents* can not display some documents when installed without *LibreOffice* due to a missing dependency *Gnome Documents* uses libraries provided by the *LibreOffice* suite for rendering certain types of documents, such as OpenDocument Text or Open Office XML formats. However, the required libraries (_libreoffice-filters_) are missing from the dependency list of the _gnome-documents_ package. Therefore, if you install *Gnome Documents* on a system that does not have *LibreOffice*, the aforementioned document types can not be rendered. To work around this problem, install _libreoffice-filters_ package manually, even if you do not plan to use LibreOffice itself.
Description of problem: Gnome-documents is not able to render libreoffice, msoffice and OneDrive documents when installed on empty machine without libreoffice. 'yum -y install gnome documents' is installing the following packages: Installing: gnome-documents x86_64 3.22.2-5.el7 libreoffice-langpack-en x86_64 1:5.0.6.2-14.el7 Installing for dependencies: libreoffice-core x86_64 1:5.0.6.2-14.el7 libreoffice-opensymbol-fonts noarch 1:5.0.6.2-14.el7 libreoffice-ure x86_64 1:5.0.6.2-14.el7 libreofficekit x86_64 1:5.0.6.2-14.el7 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-documents-3.22.2-5.el7.x86_64 libreofficekit-5.0.6.2-14.el7.x86_64 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1.yum -y remove 'libreoffice*' (deletes also gnome-documents) 2.yum -y install gnome-documents 3.open documents and choose any libreoffice/mssoffice/OneDrive document Actual results: Documents is not rendered in some cases it crashes with following segmentation fault: [10797.248754] gnome-documents[2226]: segfault at 0 ip 00007f38e04aac03 sp 00007ffd400d9f68 error 4 in libsfxlo.so[7f38e0307000+4ee000] Expected results: documents should be rendered without crash Additional info: the problem is solved by installing libreoffice: yum -y install libreoffice
I cannot reproduce the segfault manually, only via automated test. I was able to retrieve the following backtrace from crash: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x00007f1d4a4a0c03 in SfxViewShellArr_Impl::operator[](unsigned long) () from /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libsfxlo.so (gdb) backtrace #0 0x00007f1d4a4a0c03 in SfxViewShellArr_Impl::operator[](unsigned long) () from /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libsfxlo.so #1 0x00007f1d4a705723 in SfxLokHelper::setView(unsigned long) () from /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libsfxlo.so #2 0x00007f1d74cfaee0 in doc_setView () from /usr/lib64/libreoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so #3 0x00007f1d74f4a412 in postDocumentLoad(void*) () from /lib64/liblibreofficekitgtk.so #4 0x00007f1d98ae2338 in gdk_threads_dispatch () from /lib64/libgdk-3.so.0 #5 0x00007f1d96cda0d7 in g_idle_dispatch () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00007f1d96cdd4c9 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #7 0x00007f1d96cdd818 in g_main_context_iterate.isra.21 () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #8 0x00007f1d96cdd8cc in g_main_context_iteration () from /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x00007f1d972957c5 in g_application_run () from /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00007f1d97b9ddcc in ffi_call_unix64 () from /lib64/libffi.so.6 #11 0x00007f1d97b9d6f5 in ffi_call () from /lib64/libffi.so.6 #12 0x00007f1d996b365e in ?? () from /lib64/libgjs.so.0 #13 0x00007f1d996b4b21 in ?? () from /lib64/libgjs.so.0 #14 0x00007f1d965c18f2 in js::Invoke(JSContext*, JS::CallArgs, js::MaybeConstruct) () from /lib64/libmozjs-24.so #15 0x00007f1d965c5731 in Interpret(JSContext*, js::RunState&) () from /lib64/libmozjs-24.so #16 0x00007f1d965cf048 in js::RunScript(JSContext*, js::RunState&) () from /lib64/libmozjs-24.so #17 0x00007f1d965cf274 in js::Execute(JSContext*, JS::Handle<JSScript*>, JSObject&, JS::Value*) () from /lib64/libmozjs-24.so #18 0x00007f1d9667c43b in JS::Evaluate(JSContext*, JS::Handle<JSObject*>, JS::CompileOptions, unsigned short const*, unsigned long, JS::Value*) () from /lib64/libmozjs-24.so #19 0x00007f1d9667c59e in JS::Evaluate(JSContext*, JS::Handle<JSObject*>, JS::CompileOptions, char const*, unsigned long, JS::Value*) () from /lib64/libmozjs-24.so #20 0x00007f1d996a6725 in gjs_eval_with_scope () from /lib64/libgjs.so.0 #21 0x00007f1d9969f373 in gjs_context_eval () from /lib64/libgjs.so.0 #22 0x00000000004012df in main () (gdb)
Either libreofficekit or gnome-documents needs to add a dependency on libreoffice-filters, which will pull in all the necessary packages. It can be argued this should be in libreofficekit, as it is not very useful without it...
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:0751