Bug#865866: libreoffice-writer crash on startup Debian 9 i386 arch

[guillaume jaouen]

Package: libreoffice-writer
Version: 1:5.2.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

* What led up to the situation?
Start libreoffice writer on a normal user account "libreoffice
--writer".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Install Debian 9 (netinst)
Install LibreOffice suite.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Program crash.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Normal execution of libreoffice-writer.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages libreoffice-writer depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.24
ii libabw-0.1-1 0.1.1-4
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libe-book-0.1-1 0.1.2-4
ii libetonyek-0.1-1 0.1.6-5
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18
ii libicu57 57.1-6
ii libmwaw-0.3-3 0.3.9-2
ii libodfgen-0.1-1 0.1.6-2
ii libreoffice-base-core 1:5.2.7-1
ii libreoffice-core 1:5.2.7-1
ii librevenge-0.0-0 0.0.4-6
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
ii libwpd-0.10-10 0.10.1-5
ii libwpg-0.3-3 0.3.1-3
ii libwps-0.4-4 0.4.5-1
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii uno-libs3 5.2.7-1
ii ure 5.2.7-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages libreoffice-writer recommends:
ii libreoffice-math 1:5.2.7-1

Versions of packages libreoffice-writer suggests:
ii default-jre [java5-runtime] 2:1.8-58
ii fonts-crosextra-caladea 20130214-1
ii fonts-crosextra-carlito 20130920-1
ii libreoffice-base 1:5.2.7-1
pn libreoffice-gcj <none>
ii libreoffice-java-common 1:5.2.7-1
ii openjdk-8-jre [java5-runtime] 8u131-b11-2

Versions of packages libreoffice-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii fonts-opensymbol 2:102.7+LibO5.2.7-1
ii libboost-date-time1.62.0 1.62.0+dfsg-4
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u1
ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1
ii libclucene-contribs1v5 2.3.3.4+dfsg-1
ii libclucene-core1v5 2.3.3.4+dfsg-1
ii libcmis-0.5-5v5 0.5.1+git20160603-3+b1
ii libcups2 2.2.1-8
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.52.1-5
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.18-1
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.108-2
ii libdconf1 0.26.0-2+b1
ii libeot0 0.01-4+b1
ii libexpat1 2.2.0-2
ii libexttextcat-2.0-0 3.4.4-2+b1
ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.7+b1
ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3.2
ii libgcc1 1:6.3.0-18
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 13.0.6-1+b2
ii libglew2.0 2.0.0-3+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.3-2
ii libgltf-0.0-0v5 0.0.2-5
ii libglu1-mesa [libglu1] 9.0.0-2.1
ii libgraphite2-3 1.3.10-1
ii libharfbuzz-icu0 1.4.2-1
ii libharfbuzz0b 1.4.2-1
ii libhunspell-1.4-0 1.4.1-2+b2
ii libhyphen0 2.8.8-5
ii libice6 2:1.0.9-2
ii libicu57 57.1-6
ii libjpeg62-turbo 1:1.5.1-2
ii liblangtag1 0.6.2-1
ii liblcms2-2 2.8-4
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.44+dfsg-5
ii libmythes-1.2-0 2:1.2.4-3
ii libneon27-gnutls 0.30.2-2
ii libnspr4 2:4.12-6
ii libnss3 2:3.26.2-1.1
ii libodfgen-0.1-1 0.1.6-2
ii libpcre3 2:8.39-3
ii libpng16-16 1.6.28-1
ii librdf0 1.0.17-1.1
ii libreoffice-common 1:5.2.7-1
ii librevenge-0.0-0 0.0.4-6
ii libsm6 2:1.2.2-1+b3
ii libstdc++6 6.3.0-18
ii libx11-6 2:1.6.4-3
ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1+b2
ii libxinerama1 2:1.1.3-1+b3
ii libxml2 2.9.4+dfsg1-2.2
ii libxrandr2 2:1.5.1-1
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.10-1
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.29-2.1
ii uno-libs3 5.2.7-1
ii ure 5.2.7-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-5

Versions of packages libreoffice-core recommends:
ii libpaper-utils 1.1.24+nmu5

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[Rene Engelhard]

tag 865866 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

Post by guillaume jaouen
Package: libreoffice-writer
Version: 1:5.2.7-1
Severity: important
Tags: upstream

[...]

Post by guillaume jaouen
* What led up to the situation?
Start libreoffice writer on a normal user account "libreoffice
--writer".
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
Install Debian 9 (netinst)
Install LibreOffice suite.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Program crash.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Normal execution of libreoffice-writer.

Works for me on "normal" stretch. Though I didn't yet reboot for the latest
kernel upgrade which causes Java stuff to break.

See e.g. also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865303

Do you have any "interesting" (Java) extensions installed or was this a clean
system? I ask because you are french and probably also have installed the
questionable extension?

Does downgrading the kernel from security to that one in stable (or
upgrading it to the kernel from
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865303#94 work?

Regards,

Rene

Post by guillaume jaouen
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Oh my, you installed a fresh system and STILL installed i386? What for?
"Of course" the new kernel packaged linked above have only _amd64 built....

Regards,

Rene

[Rene Engelhard]

Hi,

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I haven't asked which Java packages you have installed. I have asked which *LO* Java packages
you have installed. E.g. Java extensios. Like -nlpsolver/-report.builder/-wiki-publisher.

I didn't downgrade my stable debian, but I can run all libreoffice5.2

Then do and report back whether the old kernel fixes it.

E.g. here, on amd64:

$ apt-cache policy linux-image-`uname -r`
linux-image-4.9.0-3-amd64:
Installiert: 4.9.30-2+deb9u1
Installationskandidat: 4.9.30-2+deb9u1
Versionstabelle:
*** 4.9.30-2+deb9u1 500
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4.9.30-2 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

Install 4.9.30-2 from stable instead of 4.9.30-2+deb9u1 from stable-security, reboot
and report back ;)

applications from libreoffice.org debian packages without any trouble.

Interesting. You installed all packages it provides?

I own an old laptop with only 4 Gb of ram (the laptop can't manage
more) + a T7200 CPU and sometime I need to get x86 libraries for
specific old apps.

You can also do that on amd64. That is no reason, imho.

But I guess I need to create a i386 VM...

Regards,

Rene

[Aaron Valdes]

Hello,

How do I edit my /etc/apt/source.list in order to see older kernel versions?

# apt-cache policy linux-image-`uname -r`

linux-image-4.9.0-3-686:
Installed: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2
Candidate: 4.9.30-2+deb9u2
Version table:
*** 4.9.30-2+deb9u2 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stretch/main i386 Packages
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Aaron

Post by Rene Engelhard
$ apt-cache policy linux-image-`uname -r`
Installiert: 4.9.30-2+deb9u1
Installationskandidat: 4.9.30-2+deb9u1
*** 4.9.30-2+deb9u1 500
500 http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
4.9.30-2 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

[Martin Steigerwald]

Post by Aaron Valdes
How do I edit my /etc/apt/source.list in order to see older kernel versions?
# apt-cache policy linux-image-`uname -r`

[…]

I think its best to use snapshot.debian.org for that

Thanks,

[Hans]

Hi folks,

I think, and everyone might agree to it, that downgrading to an old kernel with its security
holes and other already fixed stuff is IMO a very bad and dumb idea! Downgrading a
kernel for a single app is always the most wrong policy.

You should note, that the last running libreoffice version was one version below the actual
version in debian/stable. And note, too, that it ran on linux-image-4.11-XXX, the latest
kernel version in debian/testing on an i386 system.
Mine is an EEEPC 1005HGO.

So. the better solution is, for the time, libreoffice is not fixed, use an alternative. I suggest
Abiword, as it is most compatible to libreoffice and can read and write most documents
formats very well (better than calibre, sorry guys).

I suppose, the developer team is working hard at the moment on libreoffice, to get it
fixed. We should give them the time, and hope the best.

For me, using Abiword with the latest kernel is the better solution!

Best

Hans