Bug 107911 - All apps hang on startup with NFS4 home directory if .lock exists and is incorrect
Summary: All apps hang on startup with NFS4 home directory if .lock exists and is inco...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.3.2.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
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Blocks: Network
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Reported: 2017-05-17 14:01 UTC by mal
Modified: 2019-06-08 02:56 UTC (History)
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Description mal 2017-05-17 14:01:24 UTC
If you use LO on Linux ( openSUSE in my case ) with NFS4 home directories all LO apps can hang on startup. Applies to both openSUSE version and generical LO version. 

To reproduce without NFS4 :-

Start Writer

Open the .lock file with a text editor

Close Writer ( The lock file gets removed )

Re save the .lock file after changing the hostname  ( ie as if a user has crashed or just turned off their machine and then gone to another machine )

Start Writer ( it hangs on startup )

It now cannot be restarted until all LO processes have been killed or user logs out and back in if just the faulty .lock is removed or user logs into the machine where it died ( or changes the .lock to the current machine )

Removing the whole ~/.config/libreoffice will also clear it as LO seems to understand that.

Quick and dirty fix:-

add 
rm ~/.config/libreoffice/4-suse/.lock to .profile
or
rm ~/.config/libreoffice/4/.lock to .profile
depending on your version
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2018-10-19 11:08:59 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug.
Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice
from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2019-05-08 17:30:25 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-06-08 02:56:10 UTC
Dear mal,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately
reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
your bug against the latest release. If the issue is still
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