LibreOffice3 Impress crashing?

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2013/2/12 Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>

> On 12/02/13 23:11, Karl Auer wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:37 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>
>>> The command in the applications launch menu to run Impress is
>>> 'libreoffice4.0 --impress %U'
>>>
>> Weelll - it's "libreoffice" on my system, as installed. But that's not
>> important right now.
>>
>>  The other thing: what occurs if you create a new user and run Impress?
>>>
>> Progress! Good call. Opened by another user, set up for the purpose,
>> LibreOffice Impress does not crash. Not on a new file, not on an
>> existing file. Odd that the crash still happened on a fresh install
>> though.
>>
>> So - how to clear the problem and put my own user back to a clean slate?
>> I tried renaming ~/.config/libreoffice to a different name; impress
>> created a new one and the crash still happens.
>>
>
> "The impossible can be done in a day but miracles will take a bit longer."
>
> Re-installing a program is often one way of overcoming a problem but in
> this case if Impress is working for a new user then it may not be the
> answer.
>
> Any differences in permissions, group membership?
>
> One of the nice things about using mc (Midnight Commander) is that it has
> the facility to do a directory-directory or file-file compare and highlight
> differences.
>
> If a visual comparison of the folders created for the 'new user' against
> those for the 'old user' doesn't readily show up any difference(s) then
> perhaps the use of mc would?
>
> (Just another comment. Even though you mention that the way impress is
> launched is "not important right now", what actually happens if the command
> as I described it is used (ie, with %U)?)
>
>
> BC
>
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Try starting impress from the CLI, if it crashes then it can show you some
errors ?

O.
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