Description: When starting Check For Updates for the first time from the main LibreOffice application started from Win10 desktop shortcut, a form pops up that is garbled with uninitialised controls, and does nothing. The second attempt works as advertised. This is a recurring problem I noted to affect LO at least since 7.1.x. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start LO from the Windows desktop shortcut 2.Click Help 3.Click Check For Updates... Actual Results: A form pops up with uninitialised controls, with overlap, no Check For Updates is actually performed. Only option is to close the form. Expected Results: The form shall produce output consistent with checking for updates (check, info, review...). Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: This occurs consistent every time, the first check always gives the non-working form after which the Check For Updates appears to work normally, even after a restart of the LO application from the Windows desktop shortcut. Version: 7.3.1.3 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: a69ca51ded25f3eefd52d7bf9a5fad8c90b87951 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB Calc: threaded
Created attachment 179155 [details] Uninitialised form (v7.3.1.3) This is the C4U form after installing v7313
Created attachment 179156 [details] Uninitialised form (v7.1.x) This is from LO 7.1.x, captured just minutes before installing v7.3.1.3.
The unititialised form seems to generate only once in a Windows user session. After a reboot or logoff/logon the form is generated rather consistently, every second attempt works as advertised, even when closing/restarting the LO application.
Created attachment 179401 [details] Uninitialised form (v7.3.2.2) Just installed v7.3.2.2 over v7.3.1.3 and again I get the faulty Check For Updates screen. It seems that this faulty form appears right after the installation, any next activation appears to work correctly.
The very first time I ran Check for Updates in version 7.4.4.2, I got the window shown in Dutch's attachments. But the next time I ran Check for Updates in 7.4.4.2 and 7.5.0.0 builds, Check for Updates ran fine. Version: 7.4.4.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 85569322deea74ec9134968a29af2df5663baa21 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: CL Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 5a1f41a0d3aab15c113651f2edc9d4137ae99063 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19044; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
NEW per comment 5. I notice earlier reports like bug 121909. Comments in bug 50421 also talk about first launch and it had some duplicates saying the same.
*** Bug 157812 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Also happens on macOS according to duplicate bug 157812.
I confirm it has been always happening on Mac OS too.