Bug 118712 - Libreoffice fails to start when overlayroot is enabled
Summary: Libreoffice fails to start when overlayroot is enabled
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.5.1 rc
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2018-07-12 01:53 UTC by nehemiah
Modified: 2018-07-13 15:08 UTC (History)
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Description nehemiah 2018-07-12 01:53:54 UTC 
When booting Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian testing from NFS or NBD with the overlayroot kernel parameter enabled, libreoffice fails to start with the following output:

Fatal exception: Signal 11
Stack:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x13568)[0x7fc7fb217568]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c3a6)[0x7fc7fb2403a6]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x34f00)[0x7fc7fae7ef00]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_cppu.so.3(uno_type_any_assign+0x705)[0x7fc7f3d34d05]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2942ef8)[0x7fc7fdda0ef8]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2943c9a)[0x7fc7fdda1c9a]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN3utl10ConfigItemC2ERKN3rtl8OUStringE14ConfigItemMode+0xcb)[0x7fc7fdd9622b]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x299cac5)[0x7fc7fddfaac5]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN19SvtSysLocaleOptionsC1Ev+0x125)[0x7fc7fddfc075]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z7InitVCLv+0x1a0)[0x7fc7fe1481f0]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2ceb9cd)[0x7fc7fe1499cd]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z6SVMainv+0x30)[0x7fc7fe149a30]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(soffice_main+0x115)[0x7fc7fd1906e5]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x78b)[0x5562568b878b]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x7fc7fae6ba87]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x7ca)[0x5562568b87ca]

Disabling overlayroot makes libreoffice start as usual on NFS at least. This, to me indicated that the issue must be related to overlayroot and not the fact that I'm booting over the network.
Comment 1 nehemiah 2018-07-12 16:15:26 UTC 
I wanted to add some steps to easily reproduce this issue. On Ubuntu 18.04 or 16.04 install the 'overlayroot' package. The add the following to your kernel parameters: overlayroot=tmpfs:swap=0,recurse=0

Booting with that will make libreoffice fail to start.
Comment 2 nehemiah 2018-07-13 15:08:32 UTC 
I tried the DEB packages provided by libreoffice both the current stable and the development version and they work fine.