Bug 46628 - FORMULAEDITOR: Formula Editor Broken with some old ~/.libreoffice profiles
Summary: FORMULAEDITOR: Formula Editor Broken with some old ~/.libreoffice profiles
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Formula Editor (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.0 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: BSA
Keywords: regression
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-02-25 15:54 UTC by Walt
Modified: 2012-03-02 01:04 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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This is the profile folder with the broken formula editor. (368.61 KB, application/x-gzip)
2012-03-02 00:57 UTC, Walt 		Details
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Description Walt 2012-02-25 15:54:57 UTC 
Problem description: 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Install all  deb files.  Install Desktop integration
2. Open Writer and Insert Formula
3. You should see a box at the bottom to insert your formula.

Current behavior:

No editing box is available.
Math does not run from the main LibreOffice Launcher window.
Math does not appear in the Menus (Kubuntu 10.10)

Expected behavior:

As soon as you click on insert formula a box opens at the bottom of the screen to insert and or edit your formula.

Platform (if different from the browser):  Kubuntu 10.10 
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2
Comment 1 Björn Michaelsen 2012-02-27 03:51:08 UTC 
see workaround from launchpad bug 938312: Does it help to remove/rename ~/.libreoffice?
Comment 2 Björn Michaelsen 2012-02-27 03:57:08 UTC 
Also: Cant reproduce with LibreOffice 3.5.0-1ubuntu4 on precise, but then again I have no old ~/.libreoffice profile on that install.
Comment 3 Björn Michaelsen 2012-02-27 04:54:50 UTC 
This is a regression. If you have the old ~/.libreoffice contents around, you can try to bibisect this: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect

If you do not want to do that yourself, please consider uploading a ~/.libreoffice tarball.
Comment 4 Walt 2012-02-27 14:30:29 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> see workaround from launchpad bug 938312: Does it help to remove/rename
> ~/.libreoffice?

Thanks for the suggestion.  Here is what I did to 

I removed the .libreoffice profile.
I completely uninstalled libreoffice using synaptic package manager.
I verified the profile was gone.
I reinstalled LO 3.5

All bugs were the same.  No changes/improvement.
Comment 5 Walt 2012-02-27 14:35:50 UTC 
(In reply to comment #3)
> This is a regression. If you have the old ~/.libreoffice contents around, you
> can try to bibisect this: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/HowToBibisect
> 
> If you do not want to do that yourself, please consider uploading a
> ~/.libreoffice tarball.

I reinstalled LO 3.5 after completely removing the profile folder. ./.libreoffice.

No new profile appeared after trying to run LO.  Therefore I cannot send it to you.
Comment 6 Björn Michaelsen 2012-02-29 11:13:04 UTC 
Not reproducable (with a fresh profile) in Ubuntu packages. Seems to be only a problem with upstream packages?
Comment 7 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2012-03-01 13:45:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
[...] 
> I reinstalled LO 3.5 after completely removing the profile folder.
> ./.libreoffice.
> 
> No new profile appeared after trying to run LO.  Therefore I cannot send it to
> you.

The profile for LibreOffice 3.5 is now in ~/.config/libreoffice

Best regards. JBF
Comment 8 Walt 2012-03-02 00:57:46 UTC 
Created attachment 57901 [details]
This is the profile folder with the broken formula editor.
Comment 9 Walt 2012-03-02 01:04:32 UTC 
(In reply to comment #8)
> Created attachment 57901 [details]
> This is the profile folder with the broken formula editor.

All is well.  Thanks to all of you for your help.  Once the old profile ( /.config/LibreOffice ) was deleted, I reinstalled from the 3.5 DEBS and it worked well.

The fact that the new profile crashes with an old profile still ought to be a bug.  But I will leave that to the experts.

Thanks again.