Re: libreoffice crashes when starting

[Brian]

On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:48:58 +0100
Wojtek Kosior via <help-guix@gnu.org> wrote:

> Hi there!
> 
> This very problem seems to have been encountered before[1].
> 
> If information in that thread is correct, the fix would be to make
> sure both the system profile and your user profile use the same
> version of glibc.
> 
> Since you said packages in your user profile are already up-to-date,
> I'd try `sudo guix system reconfigure /path/to/system/config.scm`.
> 
> If this doesn't work, you might also try running LibreOffice in a pure
> container, similar to how it was done with Dino in yet another
> thread[2].
> 
> Good luck :)
> Wojtek
> 
> [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2023-05/msg00015.html
> [2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2023-12/msg00029.html
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> On Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:41:36 -0700 Brian <okeefe@cybermesa.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hello All,
> > 
> > I'm sorry to double post, if that's actually the case but I am
> > having some email client issues (resolved and am using Claws now).
> > I'm running the most recent Guix desktop as a VBox client on an
> > Ubuntu host. That's all working fine. I have updated and refreshed
> > all of the packages with 'guix pull' and 'guix refresh'. 
> > As an office suite I have installed libreoffice. However, upon
> > starting I get a milisecond long libreoffice splash screen and then
> > it crashes. I've uninstalled and reinstalled. I've deleted the
> > config file in my home directory but nothing has worked. Here is
> > the terminal output. Perhaps this will help define the problem?
> > Many thanks
> > 
> > ~$ libreoffice
> > warn:sal.osl:3195:3195:sal/osl/unx/thread.cxx:1037:
> > RTL_TEXTENCODING_DONTKNOW -> _ASCII_US
> > warn:sal.osl:3213:3213:sal/osl/unx/thread.cxx:1037:
> > RTL_TEXTENCODING_DONTKNOW -> _ASCII_US
> > warn:configmgr:3213:3213:configmgr/source/xcuparser.cxx:901:
> > ignoring modify of unknown set member node "StarOffice XML (Base)
> > Report" in
> > "file:///gnu/store/b8s0liqkp397wyb70rb54nq5dxgbybjr-libreoffice-7.6.3.1/lib/libreoffice/program/../share/registry/res/fcfg_langpack_en-US.xcd"
> > warn:configmgr:3213:3213:configmgr/source/xcuparser.cxx:901:
> > ignoring modify of unknown set member node "StarOffice XML (Base)
> > Report Chart" in
> > "file:///gnu/store/b8s0liqkp397wyb70rb54nq5dxgbybjr-libreoffice-7.6.3.1/lib/libreoffice/program/../share/registry/res/fcfg_langpack_en-US.xcd"
> > 
> > (soffice:3213): Gtk-WARNING **: 14:27:28.798: Locale not supported
> > by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale.
> > /gnu/store/b8s0liqkp397wyb70rb54nq5dxgbybjr-libreoffice-7.6.3.1/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin:
> > symbol lookup error:
> > /gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33/lib/libpthread.so.0:
> > undefined symbol: __libc_pthread_init, version GLIBC_PRIVATE
> >   

Good news! I ran guix pull, guix refresh, guix pull, removed
libreoffice and did a system reconfigure, installed libreoffice and
made sure the PATH was correct so ran
'GUIX_PROFILE="$HOME/.config/guix/current" .
"$GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile' and libreoffice opens and works!