reassign 837156 libreoffice-core retitle 837156 libreoffice crashes on odt file open if libreoffice-writer isn't installed tag 837156 + upstream thanks
Hi, On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 01:35:38PM +0200, Matthias Lang wrote: > On a system with libreoffice-common installed, but not libreoffice-writer, You mean -core? -common doesn't do stuff, it contains arch-indep data and scripts :) > doing this: > > libreoffice my_valid_document.odt > > crashes libreoffice instantly with a message > > LibreOffice Document Recovery > > Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed. All the files you were > working > on will now be saved. The next time LibreOffice is launched, your files > will be > recovered automatically. > > I expected libreoffice to (a) not crash and (b) say something along the lines > of > "can't open that file because the 'writer' component isn't installed. Yes, that would be ideal. Unfortunately it's a general problem that LO doesn't do this. Can you file a bug upstrem (though I am 99.9% sure there is already one) which I can mark this bug forwarded to then? Regards, Rene > The solution for me is to install libreoffice-writer. But libreoffice's "I've > crashed" handling of the situation made it hard to realise that was the > problem. Well, that's why there's "libreoffice" metapackage and libreoffice-core itself contains (almost) nothing you can do any use of alone. Regards, Rene
