LibreOffice3 Impress crashing?

[Basil Chupin]

On 12/02/13 23:48, OliWare (Gmail) wrote:
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>
> 2013/2/12 Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au 
> <mailto:blchupin at iinet.net.au>>
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>     On 12/02/13 23:11, Karl Auer wrote:
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>         On Tue, 2013-02-12 at 22:37 +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>             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)?)
>

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> Try starting impress from the CLI, if it crashes then it can show you 
> some errors ?

You obviously missed the earlier bits  - this has already been suggested 
and attempted, and producing useful results totally exactly zero (0) :-) .

BC

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