Bug 106772

Summary: LibreOffice Hanging on Startup on Ubuntu (gtk3)
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Luke <lukebenes>
Component: LibreOfficeAssignee: Arnaud Versini <arnaud.versini>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: critical CC: bjoern.michaelsen, caolan.mcnamara, fitojb, xiscofauli
Priority: medium Keywords: bisected, regression
Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100158
Whiteboard: target:5.4.0
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:

Description Luke 2017-03-26 05:04:13 UTC 
Ever since
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6903066822900a700ccf67ae70fa171c94644a9a

Related: rhbz#1334915 tdf#100158 hack using startcenter icon under wayland

When I try to launch libreoffice, nothing happens. Reverting this commit fixes the issue. I have reproduced this bug on both Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10.
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2017-03-26 17:11:48 UTC 
I can reproduce it in

Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 193f8966135064a32164c9da08d01dab9c1fc15d
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

but not in

Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 193f8966135064a32164c9da08d01dab9c1fc15d
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
Locale: ca-ES (ca_ES.UTF-8); Calc: group

It has been mentioned in the dev mailling list too -> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/master-builds-starts-but-no-UI-tc4211020.html.
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2017-03-26 17:22:23 UTC 
Fix proposal submitted to gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/35720/
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2017-03-26 20:11:15 UTC 
Arnaud Versini committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=80c18d5dd33d0681c58816d7536fe3e7d1297b9e

Fixes tdf#106772 show the window in X11 in VCL gtk3 plugin.

It will be available in 5.4.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.