Solved: LibreOffice-5.4.3-2 with fix for "Save" issue in Main-testing repo

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Hello,

  • OpenMandriva Lx version: Lx 3

  • Desktop environment (KDE, LXQT…): Any. At least as far as I know.

  • Description of the issue (screenshots if relevant):
    New LibreOffice packages somehow got moved from main-testing to main-updates repo even though there are people working on a serious problem.

Some users are reporting a problem with saving odt and docxx files.
Screen shot maybe later.

  • Relevant informations (hardware involved, software version, logs or output…):

libreoffice-5.4.3 is the version that may have this issue. Users are advised to stay with libreoffice-5.3.3 for now.

Bug report here.

To keep current version of libreoffice edit the file (as root or su) ‘/etc/urpmi/skip.list’ and add /^libreoffice/ and save file. Then pay attention when installing any updates and be sure libreoffice-5.4.3 is not called.

Of course anyone may be brave and update at their own risk. But you have been warned.

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Screen shot. I make a change to an .odt document and attempt to save and this happens:

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And then when a wait 180 seconds and then terminate file and attempt to open it again I see this:

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and after I let it recover the document I see that my change was not in fact saved. Ergo this version (5.4.3) of LibreOffice is broken for me and at least some other users.

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This screen shot simply shows the version of LibreOffice with this issue.

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The same version from libreoffice.org works well.

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Try the 6.0 beta from cooker – at least for me it works much better than any released 5.4.x.

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Thanks for the tip but there are too much dependencies for 3.03 to test it from cooker.
The dev release from libreoffice.org works well.

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We, well not me, but crazy on IRC and @Colin have come up with a couple of possible workarounds.

One is to create the file /etc/profile.d/lo.sh with:

#!/bin/sh

export VCL_NO_THREAD_SCALE=1

and reboot. The other is to simply run as user in Konsole or other terminal:

$ export VCL_NO_THREAD_SCALE=1

that one should work immediately if not sooner.

Edit: @ben79 screws up again. Correction someone going by the handle vmiklos at upstream is responsible for this workaround.

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I have this issue too but only on LibreOffice from OpenMandriva repository. When I use Appimage LO 5.4.3 from here Stable – LibreOffice AppImage Package I have no issue.

Also prebuild binary (with auto-updater) from LO 6.0 alpha work fine. Here link http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/Linux-archive-x86_64@80-updater/current/

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@bero has been so kind as to make new packages for LibreOffice-5.4.3 (release-2) that contain a fix for the issue some users reported with saving .odt, .doc, and .docx files. The packages are in main-testing repository.

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After a quick test (in VBox), it seems to works. I don’t recommend to install it from main-testing however because other packages will be installed also (especially systemd-235-7).

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These packages are in main-updates repo thus available to all. Closing topic.