Bug 115327

Summary: Base crashes when FILEOPEN a database and displaying JRE required. SNAP Package
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: regis.alleger
Component: BaseAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED NOTOURBUG    
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: 5.4.4.2 release   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description regis.alleger 2018-01-31 10:51:20 UTC 
Description:
Hi,
when I open or create a DB with Base from SNAP package it crashes and display JRE required.
It doesn't happen with the normal .deb package.
I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Thx

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch base
2.Create/open new DB/ existing DB
3.Crashes (freezes)

Actual Results:  
Crashes (freezes)

Expected Results:
Base should open as usual.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2018-02-01 10:44:49 UTC 
@Regis : the snap packages provided by Ubuntu are jailed/chrooted, thus they can't see outside of their limited environment, i.e. they can't find /usr/java or wherever the distrib puts the JVM.

This would appear to be a deliberate Ubuntu packaging decision.

Some people have suggested installing with:

sudo snap install libreoffice --devmode

but I haven't tested to see whether this solves the issue.