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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/24/18 11:49 AM, Ian Bruntlett
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<div>Hi,</div>
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<div>On behalf of the Computer Wombling Project I am
refurbishing a donated Toshiba NB250-107 netbook. It has a
64-bit CPU and 1GiB RAM. Because of that I installed 32-bit
Lubuntu 18.04.1. Whenever I try to open a (small) document
with LibreOffice Writer, the hard drive whirs a bit, some of
the LibreOffice window appears... and then LibreOffice
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<div>I think it is running out of memory. I've put a 2GiB
partition on the hard drive but that does not seem to be
used. Here is the output of the swapon --summary command:-</div>
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<div>Filename Type Size Used
Priority<br>
/dev/sda1 partition
1998844 0 -2<br>
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<div>Thanks :)</div>
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<p>That problem sounds like what I encountered. When I submitted
the bug-report, here is the reply I got, which turned out to be
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">That's very likely a duplicate of bug #1699772.
To confirm this, can you run the following command in a terminal:
sed -i '/enabled/c\<enabled xsi:nil="false">false<\/enabled>'
~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/config/javasettings_Linux_*.xml
Then execute libreoffice writer and let me know if the crash is still
happening? Thanks!
[For the record, that command disables the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) in libreoffice, which is known to cause crashes on 32bits processors. Some functions of libreoffice won't work without Java (the most visible probably being libreoffice base), but most of the office suite should work just fine.]
** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Title:
LibreOffice Writer Won't Run on Pentium-4 32-bit Computer
Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
On a Dell GX-270 (Intel 32-bit) computer running Lubuntu 18.04, I can
run LibreOffice, but when I select LibreOffice Writer the LibreOffice
window disappears, and nothing happens, as if the application just
terminated normally, without doing anything.
An AppPort window reporting an error appeared, but when I clicked its
"Send" button, the window disappeared without doing anything.
If I run LibreOffice Writer directly from the menu, I get a frame of
its window (with nothing filled-in inside), which persists for awhile,
and then disappears.
In either case, no error message appears, and nothing further happens.
LibreOffice Calc, on the other hand, appears to run, though I haven't
tried any spreadsheet using it.
I expected LibreOffice Writer to initialize, and then use it for
editing documents (as it did on Lubuntu 16.04), but the LibreOffice
Writer window disappeared.
The same problem occurred on a Dell GX-260 computer.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: libreoffice-writer 1:6.0.6-0ubuntu0.18.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-36.39-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-36-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Mon Nov 19 21:48:52 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-06-24 (148 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release i386 (20180426)
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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Aere</pre>
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