To reproduce the bug: 1. Download the deb-packages from the LO website (http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/) 2. Extract and install them with "dpkg -i *.deb" (or whatever commands appropriate for your system) Errors: - There are some error messages at the end of the installation regarding the kde integration (see attachment #1). - Nevertheless, there are icons for LO 4.1 in the start menu. But clicking them has no effect. - Entering the command of the starters ("libreoffice4.1 --writer %U") in the console leads to an error message (see attachment #1). => LO does not start. Work around: Stripping the "%U" from the starter helps.
Created attachment 81308 [details] attachment #1 (installation errors)
Created attachment 81309 [details] attachment #2 (error message at startup)
I investigated the bug further. I think the problem are the starters (i.e. desktop-files) in the folder LO-ROOT/share/xdg. They belong to user and group 500. Changing them to root ("sudo chmod root.root *") fixes the bug. Compare the file listing in LO 4.0: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30795 Jun 12 00:38 base.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24520 Jun 12 00:38 calc.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23176 Jun 12 00:38 draw.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27183 Jun 12 00:38 impress.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7517 Jun 12 00:38 javafilter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21999 Jun 12 00:38 math.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7498 Jun 12 00:38 printeradmin.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1019 Jun 12 00:38 qstart.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23147 Jun 12 00:38 startcenter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29246 Jun 12 00:38 writer.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5145 Jun 12 00:38 xsltfilter.desktop And LO 4.1: -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 27001 Jun 19 01:57 base.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 24084 Jun 19 01:57 calc.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 20484 Jun 19 01:57 draw.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 23955 Jun 19 01:57 impress.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 19327 Jun 19 01:57 math.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 1078 Jun 19 01:57 qstart.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 23279 Jun 19 01:57 startcenter.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 26115 Jun 19 01:57 writer.desktop -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 5223 Jun 19 01:57 xsltfilter.desktop
@Nico - I believe the install command needs to be run as 'root', so your install line should read: sudo dpkg -i *.deb If you don't install as root I would expect that the shortcut ownerships would be messed up. /Greg
Thanks for your answer Greg! At first I thought that I really forgot to prepend the "sudo", save I installed LO many times that way. So I did the whole routine once again and made a clean installation of LO 4.1.0.1 RC after uninstalling the old one. (I made sure that the program folder was gone.) The outcome is actually the same. But your comment opend my eyes, that not only the starters, but every folder and every file is installed with user & group 500: nico@Abulafia2:/opt/libreoffice4.1$ ls -l total 1264 -rwxr-xr-x 1 500 500 59934 Jun 19 01:57 CREDITS.odt drwxr-xr-x 2 500 500 4096 Jul 2 19:56 help -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 436216 Jun 19 01:57 LICENSE -rw-r--r-- 1 500 500 603074 Jun 19 01:57 LICENSE.html -rwxr-xr-x 1 500 500 141186 Jun 19 01:57 LICENSE.odt -rwxr-xr-x 1 500 500 4907 Jun 19 01:57 NOTICE drwxr-xr-x 9 500 500 4096 Jul 2 19:56 presets drwxr-xr-x 9 500 500 16384 Jul 2 19:56 program drwxr-xr-x 2 500 500 4096 Jul 2 19:56 readmes drwxr-xr-x 23 500 500 4096 Jul 2 19:56 share drwxr-xr-x 5 500 500 4096 Jul 2 19:56 ure lrwxrwxrwx 1 500 500 3 Jun 19 01:57 ure-link -> ure (I will attach another text file with all the installation messages including the errors on line 172 following.) I won't overestimate it, but isn't that a RELEASE BLOCKER?
Created attachment 81902 [details] messages during the installation
Can easily reproduce. This shouldn't get released until fixed, so setting severity to blocker.
Have to notice that this seems to happen with both x86 and AMD64 packages. Someone please also check RPM packages, maybe they are affected too.
Not a blocker as it doesn't affect functionality and affects insignificant part of users.
Because I assume the bug will not get fixed until the .0-Release of LO 4.1, I post the WORKAROUND for all those affected on Ubuntu like systems. After installing the packages run: sudo chown -R root:root /opt/libreoffice4.1
This still happens with AMD64 deb packages in Libreoffice 4.1.0.4.
Duplicate of the later reported and now fixed Bug 67388.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 67388 ***