LibreOffce 6.2.4 won't start after upgrade on Debian 9.9

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#1

Good afternoon,

I am running Debian 9.9 and the system us fully up-to-date. I tried up
upgrade LibreOffice this morning, and now it will not start.

If I start it from the desktop, the splash screen comes up and the
progress bar moves about 1/3 of the way, then it goes away and nothing
happens.

If I start it from the command line with "libreoffice6.2 --writer", the
same thing happens only the terminal spits out "Application error".

-I've tried logging into the system with a brand new user, same results.
-I've checked to make sure there are no LibreOffice processes running.
-I've done "apt purge LibreOffice*" and verified that anything
LibreOffice is removed from the system, rebooted, then installed and
rebooted again, same problem.
-Tried installing the old version again, no good.

I'm at a loss now. It was working this morning, and told me there was a
new version available, which is what started all of this.

Any ideas?

#2

You can find Linux installation instructions here:

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Install/Linux

We suggest to download the DEBS from the LibreOffice mirror system, and
install them according to the instructions.

Best regards.

#3

I neglected to mention that this is how I'm installing it. I'm installing the latest version from the LibreOffice web site.

#4

Try using the program selector icon.  See there is an icon there that will complete the loading of the program.

Although the LibreOffice Icon may still exist, direct installation may not be updated to 'start' the program from that icon.

The program selector is direct.

Hope this helps.

Paul

#5

If I start it from the command line with "libreoffice6.2 --writer", the
same thing happens only the terminal spits out "Application error".

Do the TDF deb downloads like <https://www.libreoffice.org/donate/dl/deb-x86_64/6.2.4/en-US/LibreOffice_6.2.4_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz> (assuming that's what you actually installed) contain a libreoffice6.2 program? I don't think so. Try running LO directly with a full path, `/opt/libreoffice6.2/program/soffice`.

-I've tried logging into the system with a brand new user, same results.

Even though that would indicate otherwise...

[...]

-Tried installing the old version again, no good.

...this makes it likely that it is an issue with your user profile (<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile>). See if `/opt/libreoffice6.2/program/soffice --safe-mode` helps.