Bug 145712 - Error when opening dbf files
Summary: Error when opening dbf files
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
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7.2.2.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Reported: 2021-11-16 09:01 UTC by Olivier Berten
Modified: 2022-05-03 11:11 UTC (History)
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Description Olivier Berten 2021-11-16 09:01:08 UTC 
Description:
LibreOffice can't open dbf files on my Ubuntu computer. These files open flawlessly on my office's Win10 computer with the same version of LibreOffice.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a dbf file (this one for instance https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53027 )


Actual Results:
General Error. General input/output error.

Expected Results:
Opening the file


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
Version: 7.2.2.2 / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 20(Build:2)
CPU threads: 24; OS: Linux 5.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: fr-BE (fr_BE.UTF-8); UI: fr-FR
Ubuntu package version: 1:7.2.2-0ubuntu0.21.10.1
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2021-11-16 21:32:19 UTC 
Maybe there is an error on the disk where the file is. Try renaming the file and copy a new one, so the new it's not wrote over the old.
Comment 2 Olivier Berten 2021-11-17 06:23:19 UTC 
I moved it all over the computer. Tried with old files as well as with new ones... No improvement...
Comment 3 m_a_riosv 2021-11-17 17:44:23 UTC 
It opens fine for me win10.

Take a look it this can help.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/491292/general-error-general-input-output-error-when-opening-documents-with-libreoff
Comment 4 Olivier Berten 2021-11-18 06:45:21 UTC 
That's exactly what I say in my bug report: it opens fine on Win10 but not on Ubuntu.
Comment 5 Alex Thurgood 2021-11-18 14:11:33 UTC 
@Olivier : are you sure that this isn't an Ubuntu package problem specific to the version being provided there ?

Is this version of LO the default distribution version, a snap, some other package manager provided source (e.g. PPA) ?

If it is, then we should mark this as NOTOURBUG.
Comment 6 Alex Thurgood 2021-11-18 14:18:14 UTC 
No repro for me with 

LO 7.2.3.1 LibreOffice Community
VCL:gtk3

running on Ubuntu 20.04.3

I picked a folder containing 3 dbf files, all 3 of them could be opened within LO from a correspondingly configured Base ODB file.
Comment 7 Alex Thurgood 2021-11-18 14:20:54 UTC 
Maybe this is specific to Ubuntu Impish 21.10 ?
Comment 8 Ezinne 2021-11-23 08:05:21 UTC 
Ubuntu tends to split LibreOffice into separate packages.

is there a libreoffice-base package in the repo, which should be installed?
Comment 9 Olivier Berten 2021-12-01 06:26:53 UTC 
This seems to have been fixed by one of the latest updates, either of LibreOffice or of Ubuntu... I can again open DBF files :-)

Thanks!
Comment 10 Xisco Faulí 2022-05-03 11:11:30 UTC 
Setting to RESOLVED WORKSFORME since the commit fixing this issue hasn't been
identified.