Bug 165418 - Crash on startup
Summary: Crash on startup
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.2.0.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2025-02-24 15:13 UTC by Tony Cowling
Modified: 2025-02-24 18:16 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Tony Cowling 2025-02-24 15:13:24 UTC
Description:
Since 23/02/2025 at 18:55, LibreOffice has crashed on startup every time.
I had upgraded to 25.02.0.3 on ‎06 ‎February ‎2025, ‏‎19:15:43, and I am fairly sure it worked after that.
Windows 10 successfully installed "February 11, 2025—KB5051974 (OS Builds 19044.5487 and 19045.5487)" on 15/02/2025, and I can't recall whether I had tried to use LibreOffice between then and the first crash report to Microsoft on 23/02/2025 at 18:55.  Hence, I can not say for certain whether the problem may have been caused by this Windows update.
I have included below the content of the most recent crash report.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Either, double-click on a .odt file, 
2.  Or, double click on the desk-top short cut
3.  Or, right-click on the desk-top short cut and select Open

Actual Results:
Apparently, nothing happens.
As indicated above, actually Windows sends an error report.

Expected Results:
Office should at least display a splash screen, and then start up.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
It did not even get as far as displaying a splash screen.

Here's the content of the most recent crash report to Microsoft.
Source
LibreOffice

Summary
Stopped working

Date
‎24/‎02/‎2025 14:19

Status
Report sent

Description
Faulting Application Path:	C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.bin

Problem signature
Problem Event Name:	APPCRASH
Application Name:	soffice.bin
Application Version:	25.2.0.3
Application Timestamp:	6793e57b
Fault Module Name:	cppu3.dll
Fault Module Version:	25.2.0.3
Fault Module Timestamp:	6793c3de
Exception Code:	c0000005
Exception Offset:	00000000000214ae
OS Version:	10.0.19045.2.0.0.768.101
Locale ID:	1033
Additional Information 1:	0e21
Additional Information 2:	0e216870c33ff8fb142ab40b2661e294
Additional Information 3:	7bb1
Additional Information 4:	7bb148190ae901a0c437a8d5ee0c22d0

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:	abf56688b8140c1bb9fff66dcd1efbe2 (1873486921462643682)
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2025-02-24 15:43:33 UTC
Thanks for reporting this issue.
it looks like a duplicate of bug 165149. The issue will be fixed in LibreOffice 25.2.1

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 165149 ***
Comment 2 Mike Kaganski 2025-02-24 15:48:39 UTC
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #1)
> it looks like a duplicate of bug 165149.

Very unlikely. Absent libraries don't result in a silent crash; they show "missing DLL" dialog box. Also, this report seems to be about an *update* of pre-installed LibreOffice - which means, that the libraries would be pre-installed (bug 165149 is only about clean install on a system with no pre-installed libraries).

I would suspect some Skia/Vulkan issue.
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2025-02-24 16:00:23 UTC
Tony: there should be a Start Menu entry for launching LibreOffice in Safe Mode. Does it work (click "Continue in safe mode" in the dialog)?
Comment 4 Tony Cowling 2025-02-24 16:39:41 UTC
In a word - no!

I went to Start -> LibreOffice -> LibreOffice (Safe Mode) and selected that.
It attempted to do something, but didn't get as far as displaying the splash screen.
In case it's of any help, here's the error report that was sent to Microsoft - although it looks to be the same as the earlier one.

> Source
> LibreOffice
>
> Summary
> Stopped working
>
> Date
> ‎24/‎02/‎2025 16:19
>
> Status
> Report sent
>
> Description
> Faulting Application Path:    C:\Program Files\LibreOffice\program\soffice.bin
>
> Problem signature
> Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
> Application Name:    soffice.bin
> Application Version:    25.2.0.3
> Application Timestamp:    6793e57b
> Fault Module Name:    cppu3.dll
> Fault Module Version:    25.2.0.3
> Fault Module Timestamp:    6793c3de
> Exception Code:    c0000005
> Exception Offset:    00000000000214ae
> OS Version:    10.0.19045.2.0.0.768.101
> Locale ID:    1033
> Additional Information 1:    0e21
> Additional Information 2:    0e216870c33ff8fb142ab40b2661e294
> Additional Information 3:    7bb1
> Additional Information 4:    7bb148190ae901a0c437a8d5ee0c22d0
>
> Extra information about the problem
> Bucket ID:    abf56688b8140c1bb9fff66dcd1efbe2 (1873486921462643682)
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2025-02-24 16:43:13 UTC
You could also try an unreleased build, Win-x86_64@tb77-TDF from https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html It installs separately.
Comment 6 Tony Cowling 2025-02-24 17:49:02 UTC
OK, I've installed that, and it works.  Yipee!

Does this mean that this issue will be fixed in LibreOffice 25.2.1?
Comment 7 Buovjaga 2025-02-24 18:16:13 UTC
(In reply to Tony Cowling from comment #6)
> OK, I've installed that, and it works.  Yipee!
> 
> Does this mean that this issue will be fixed in LibreOffice 25.2.1?

We will see soon as the release is planned for this week: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/25.2#25.2.1_release