Created attachment 66019 [details] Screeshot showing the error message. I have just installed LO-3.6.1.2 build on Windows 7 Professional, 64-bit and saw the following scenario: 1. Double clicked the LO-3.6 icon. 2. Waited few second (10 or so) and nothing happened (no splash screen). 3. Double clicked the LO-3.6 icon once again. Result: The following error message appeared on the screen, see also the screenshot: --- cut --- Unhandled exception: cannot remove file file:///C:/Users/pmladek/AppData/Roaming/LibreOffice/3/user/extensions/bundled/registry/com.sun.star.comp.deployment.help.PackageRegistryBackend/luh6gap.tmp/ks/caption/com.sun.wiki-publisher%252Fwiki.xhp: 2 --- cut --- Few seconds later, the splash screen appeared. It started to register the extensions and the application started. So, there were evidently running two instances. One of them failed and the other succeeded. Possible explanation: --------------------- The first instance was removing the huge bundled extensions directory before showing the splash screen => it looked like the application was not started => I started another instance => both instances started to remove the same files => one instance was "slower" and failed Possible solution: ------------------ + show splash earlier + earlier detect that another instance is running + ignore this Note that we install many extensions by default and the cache is huge. So, more users might be affected.
Yes, while soffice.bin discovers whether another instance is already running for this user, it only does so long after this removal-after-upgrade code has run. So if you start multiple instances of LibreOffice for the same user after an upgrade, you can run into this.
Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1b40fbe41459a2231870af94a06263d89af554a6 fdo#53968 etc.: Fix more "doesn't start after upgrade" problems
Stephan Bergmann committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-3-6": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6d261e7aac12a876acb6496085e5329632595d39&g=libreoffice-3-6 fdo#53968 etc.: Fix more "doesn't start after upgrade" problems It will be available in LibreOffice 3.6.2.