Created attachment 1316219 [details] strace dump of libreoffice Description of problem: Libreoffice would not start. It shows the splash screen, loads some modules (progress bar arround 30%) and then stops. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libreoffice-core.i686 1:5.3.5.2-2.fc26 How reproducible: Always: whether from CLI or the menu or clicking a libreoffice document Steps to Reproduce: 1. type libreoffice in a CLI 2. 3. Actual results: Nothing Expected results: Libreoffice coming up Additional info: Recently upgraded to Fedora 26. Libreoffice had no issues on Fedora 25. I attach a srace dump showing error 139. No crash informatio or core dump.
Please check if temporarily moving any existing LibreOffice user profile out of the way would solve your issue, see <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile> for instructions. (The outer libreoffice->soffice->oosplash process, not the inner soffice.bin, exiting with 139, i.e., SIGSEGV, looks odd, though.)
arch = i686, SIGSEGV => probably you haven't installed a new kernel in quite a while and are now running into the Stack Clash / JVM regression. also, desktop/unx/source/start.c has status = child_get_exit_code(info); ... return status so the exit code of soffice.bin becomes the exit code of oosplash. if you remove package "java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless" and the crash still happens, then it's something else, please reopen this bug in that case. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1468436 ***
Well, not strictly true. I am running 4.12.5-300.fc26.i686+PAE which I believe is the newest stable release. And, if I remove java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless libreoffice is removed (along with bunch of other packages). Any other ideas are appreciated.
Sorry I didn't change the status. In the meanwhile, I have removed java-1.8.0-openjdk (without the headless bit), but the issue remains. As suggested by Stephan Bergmann I also deleted the user profile, to no avail.
So, after much installing and removing, it looks like libreoffice-writer2latex is the culprit, as sugested in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1468436#c13. Uninstall it, libreoffice starts. Install it, it does not. It is indeed a duplicate of that bug, but for different reasons. Thank you and sorry for the noise. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1468436 ***