Bug 64844 - Libre Office 4.0.3 shows blank global menu and then crashes in Ubuntu 12.04 amd64
Summary: Libre Office 4.0.3 shows blank global menu and then crashes in Ubuntu 12.04 a...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 63840
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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4.0.3.3 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: high critical
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: 64846 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2013-05-22 01:15 UTC by pascal_mons
Modified: 2013-05-22 06:52 UTC (History)
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Description pascal_mons 2013-05-22 01:15:47 UTC
The global menu does show (default) in the top panel bar. I still can see the global menu headers : LibreOffice File Edit View ...

However all the drop down menus are blank ... Hence not usable.

I am not the only one to complain e.g.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/298010/libreoffice-text-missing-in-global-menu
http://askubuntu.com/questions/297743/libre-office-shows-blank-menu-and-then-crashes

Someone reported that "removing packages libreoffice-gnome libreoffice-gtk libreoffice-gtk3 solved the issue however menu will look like a Windows 95 app, but it shows ..."

Could you please investigate and in the mean mean time provides us the 4.0.2 (?) which was working fine.

I don't know where to get it for sure.

The latest version 4.0.3.3 was automatically installed through the following ppa in launchpad :
https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa

If I can add my 2 grains of salt, next time don't release something that is unusable, as I cannot get the previous [working] version which was removed from the FTP servers of the download.libreofficefoundation.org . Well, I am left with a choice of removing it completely and with no working substitute available anywhere to download. This looks rather un-professional to say the least ...

Regards
Comment 1 thejohnks 2013-05-22 03:18:50 UTC
*** Bug 64846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 thejohnks 2013-05-22 03:22:25 UTC
I just added a bug for this then marked as duplicate when I found this one. Big issue for me to say the least.
Comment 3 Ha Minh Tran Hanh 2013-05-22 04:17:22 UTC
FYI,
I got same situation on same system. Sub-menu is unusable (blank and when I clicked on item, nothing happened). I can work with functions supplied in right-click menu and keyboard shortcut (as long as I can remember the shortcut).
Comment 4 Jorendc 2013-05-22 06:52:43 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 63840 ***