We are having incidents with users calling us because Impress is crashing on startup. Investigation reveals that it's happening when they have older OpenOffice master pages still in their registrymodifications.xcu file. These must have come over as part of some migration code and were merged into the $HOME/.config/libreoffice settings area. When these lines are removed, Impress works fine. The code should just disregard entries that are errant and possibly should just delete them. Here is an example of entries that were crashing Impress. <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Impress/MultiPaneGUI/ToolPanel/RecentlyUsedMasterPages"><node oor:name="index_0" oor:op="replace"><prop oor:name="Name" oor:op="fuse"><value>edu1</value></prop><prop oor:name="URL" oor:op="fuse"><value>file:///opt/openoffice.org3/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/jOjpaL_/OOOP-templates-unified-en-US-2.6.0.2.oxt/template/layout/edu1.otp</value></prop></node></item> <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Impress/MultiPaneGUI/ToolPanel/RecentlyUsedMasterPages"><node oor:name="index_1" oor:op="replace"><prop oor:name="Name" oor:op="fuse"><value>03_presentation_background</value></prop><prop oor:name="URL" oor:op="fuse"><value>file:///opt/openoffice.org3/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/qBnz3u_/Sun_ODF_Template_Pack2_en-US.oxt/template/offimisc/03_presentation_background.otp</value></prop></node></item> <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Impress/MultiPaneGUI/ToolPanel/RecentlyUsedMasterPages"><node oor:name="index_2" oor:op="replace"><prop oor:name="Name" oor:op="fuse"><value>04_presentation_background</value></prop><prop oor:name="URL" oor:op="fuse"><value>file:///opt/openoffice.org3/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/7LjgxV_/OOOP-templates-separated-en-US-2.6.0.2.oxt/template/en-US/offimisc/04_presentation_background.otp</value></prop></node></item> <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Impress/MultiPaneGUI/ToolPanel/RecentlyUsedMasterPages"><node oor:name="index_3" oor:op="replace"><prop oor:name="Name" oor:op="fuse"><value>06_presentation_background</value></prop><prop oor:name="URL" oor:op="fuse"><value>file:///opt/openoffice.org3/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/qBnz3u_/Sun_ODF_Template_Pack2_en-US.oxt/template/offimisc/06_presentation_background.otp</value></prop></node></item> <item oor:path="/org.openoffice.Office.Impress/MultiPaneGUI/ToolPanel/RecentlyUsedMasterPages"><node oor:name="index_4" oor:op="replace"><prop oor:name="Name" oor:op="fuse"><value>Normal</value></prop><prop oor:name="URL" oor:op="fuse"><value>file:///opt/openoffice.org3/program/../share/uno_packages/cache/uno_packages/jOjpaL_/OOOP-templates-unified-en-US-2.6.0.2.oxt/template/layout/kde.otp</value></prop></node></item>
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 56877 ***