Create a file named online.xcu with the following contents and put it under share/registry/data: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <oor:items xmlns:oor="http://openoffice.org/2001/registry" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Jobs/Jobs/org.openoffice.Office.Jobs:Job['UpdateCheck']/Arguments"> <prop oor:name="AutoCheckEnabled" oor:op="fuse" oor:type="xs:boolean" oor:finalized="true"> <value>false</value> </prop> </item> </oor:items> This disables "Check for updates automatically" at Tools - Options - LibreOffice - Online Update. Then start LibreOffice and tick this checkbox. After pressing OK, LibreOffice will crash, because it tried to write a read-only config item.
Reproduced with LO 5.2.1.2 & 5.0.2.2 / Ubuntu 14.04. Fatal Error, message: "configmgr modification of finalized item". => severity: critical
Miklos created a patch on the train back home from Brno LO conference, it will be pushed soon.
Miklos Vajna committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=0ae863c8ac4b712d67041e8bcf4069afbe71b494 tdf#101976 cui: fix crash when setting AutoCheckEnabled and it is read-only It will be available in 5.3.0. 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.
Andras plans to take care of the remaining cases.
*** Bug 95390 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Andras Timar committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e58bd7a00eba8d2fd0f1db2e8121c81077a3101d tdf#101976 related: check for read-only state of all Online Update settings It will be available in 5.3.0. 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.