Bug 40256 - LibreOffice doesn't start, but shows endless recovery dialogs...
Summary: LibreOffice doesn't start, but shows endless recovery dialogs...
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version:
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3.4.2 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2011-08-20 10:54 UTC by mail
Modified: 2011-11-25 14:50 UTC (History)
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Description mail 2011-08-20 10:54:20 UTC
There is nothing to recover, and this bug doesn't allow to start the app. Even pressing cancel in the recovery dialog doesn't help at all... Uninstall-reinstall doesn't help.
Comment 1 mail 2011-08-20 10:59:54 UTC
Recent trial to start: 
"Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed." --> Recovery dialog opens -> OK  -> That's all
(The whole package was reinstalled several times, no stability issues otherwise...)
Comment 2 noname 2011-08-20 11:04:40 UTC
You can try 2 things:

1) Start a version of OOo (I use Go-oo). Quit. Run LO again. Don't ask me why, but it sometimes works.
2) Rename your user account in 'application data/libreoffice' -> hidden directory. Start LO again.
Comment 3 mail 2011-08-21 01:34:45 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> You can try 2 things:
> 
> 1) Start a version of OOo (I use Go-oo). Quit. Run LO again. Don't ask me why,
> but it sometimes works.
> 2) Rename your user account in 'application data/libreoffice' -> hidden
> directory. Start LO again.

Tried #2. Removed the Application Data/LibreOffice folder. Everything works fine. Shall I close this bug, or would you like to let it open? (It seems that after installing 3.4.2 something went wrong, and left an unusable config folder left.)
Comment 4 noname 2011-08-21 13:38:52 UTC
It just happend to me and I used solution #1 to fix it ;)

You can close this report, because it's not a real bug. Sometimes something is off on windows. That's a M$ problem.
Comment 5 mail 2011-08-22 09:07:37 UTC
See comment 4: "That's a M$ problem."
Comment 6 Don't use this account, use tml@iki.fi 2011-08-22 09:12:34 UTC
mail@tamas-nagy.net, were you offended by xdmx's comment, and marked this bug as resolved because of that? Please note that none of the actual LibreOffice developers that I know is in the habit of using derogatory terms like "M$"... that is so last century. We value our Windows-based users as much as our users on other platforms.
Comment 7 Don't use this account, use tml@iki.fi 2011-08-22 10:30:52 UTC
Reopening, bug reporter thought comment #4 was an "official" LibreOffice maintainer response.
Comment 8 noname 2011-08-22 10:59:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> mail@tamas-nagy.net, were you offended by xdmx's comment, and marked this bug
> as resolved because of that? Please note that none of the actual LibreOffice
> developers that I know is in the habit of using derogatory terms like "M$"...
> that is so last century. We value our Windows-based users as much as our users
> on other platforms.

Sorry, but I didn't try to offend anyone. I use windows myself (private & at work). So I *know* that sometimes things go wrong, sometimes with this program, sometimes with that program. I wasn't talking specific with LO in mind. But, I happen to have this problem too [sometimes]. When I commented the last time I *just* fixed the problem myself. So I know what i'm talking about.
If the problem for the reported is fixed too, then the report could be closed.
Comment 9 Andras Timar 2011-11-25 14:50:17 UTC
Closing, see comment 3. It must have been a temporary problem, maybe a corrupted user profile or somesuch.