LibreOffice crashes when I try to open a PDF

[leyvi]

Whenever I try to open a PDF file with any LO app, it crashes with the following message:

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General Error.
General input/output error.

Nothing appears in syslog, and this is what I get in stdout/stderr:

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QGuiApplication::setDesktopFileName: the specified desktop file name ends with .desktop. For compatibility reasons, the .desktop suffix will be removed. Please specify a desktop file name without .desktop suffix
This plugin supports grabbing the mouse only for popup windows
This plugin supports grabbing the mouse only for popup windows

I get this core dump, if that's helpful. I tried rebuilding app-office/libreoffice with custom-cflags disabled, but that didn't solve it either. Anyone know what's going on?

[Da51d]

Have you ever been able to open a pdf with libreoffice? Do you wish to simply read the pdf or edit it? My understanding is that libreoffice is not supposed to be a pdf viewer or editor.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/libreoffi ... iles/16079
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/opening-p ... ins/101095

[leyvi]

Yes. In the past, opening a PDF with LO would always work. It would open with LO Draw. I did just change a config file with dispatch-conf, specifically /etc/xdg/mimeapps.list. Maybe that has something to do with it? But those are just system defaults, not my user-specific settings, so I don't really know what's going on.

[szatox]

It has a pdfimport use flag though, which allows it to edit pdf files.
LibreOffice Draw module is not a great tool for the purpose and makes editing quite a painful process, but it _can_ do that.

Or at least it could, because it currently throws a "general input/output error" on my machine, whatever it means, and without any debug information. Weird.

[Da51d]

Sorry, I did not know about the pdfimport flag. That's probably why it never worked for me. I will re-emerge with that and try it out. Thanks for the useful tip.

[leyvi]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with this issue.

[sam_]

Glad to see I'm not the only one with this issue.

Did you try the pdfimport USE flag, per above?

[dmpogo]

I have libreoffice with pdfimport flag and it opens PDF's in Impress just fine (just tried). Though my version is not updated to the latest -r1 that appeared few days ago

[szatox]

Talking about versions, I'm on ~amd64 and 2 most recent versions I merged fail to import pdf with that generic error I mentioned above.
2025-02-14T16:40:49 >>> app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2-r1
2025-02-23T16:47:29 >>> app-office/libreoffice-25.2.1.1
I don't know when it stopped working; I found xournal much more convenient for scribbling on other people's papers (though, unfortunately, much more limited in what it _can_ do).

dmpogo, what exact version do you have? The one that works?

[leyvi]

sam_, I do have that USE flag enabled. My whole system is nuked right now though, trying to recover from that. I'll revisit this once I have a functioning computer.

[Da51d]

I reemerged libreoffice ( 24.2.7.2) this morning with pdfimport flag and was able to open a pdf with libreoffice draw. This evening I did emerge-webrsync and a world update and libreoffice updated to 24.2.7.2-r1. I am still able to open pdfs (although not too pretty...eg text often extends beyond the edge of it's box or even the page). However, there was some output at the end of the build process which might shed light on the issue(?)

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 * QA Notice: This package installs one or more .desktop files that do not
 * pass validation.
 * 
 * 	/usr/share/applications/libreoffice-writer.desktop: warning: value "application/clarisworks;application/docbook+xml;application/macwriteii;application/msword;application/prs.plucker;application/rtf;application/vnd.apple.pages;application/vnd.lotus-wordpro;application/vnd.ms-word;application/vnd.ms-word.document.macroEnabled.12;application/vnd.ms-word.template.macroEnabled.12;application/vnd.ms-works;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-flat-xml;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-master;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-master-template;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-template;application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-web;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document;application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.template;application/vnd.palm;application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global;application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.global;application/vnd.sun.xml.writer.template;application/vnd.wordperfect;application/wordperfect;application/x-abiword;application/x-aportisdoc;application/x-doc;application/x-extension-txt;application/x-fictionbook+xml;application/x-hwp;application/x-iwork-pages-sffpages;application/x-mswrite;application/x-pocket-word;application/x-sony-bbeb;application/x-starwriter;application/x-starwriter-global;application/x-t602;text/plain;text/rtf;" for key "MimeType" in group "Desktop Entry" contains "application/vnd.stardivision.writer-global" more than once

[dmpogo]

Talking about versions, I'm on ~amd64 and 2 most recent versions I merged fail to import pdf with that generic error I mentioned above.
2025-02-14T16:40:49 >>> app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2-r1
2025-02-23T16:47:29 >>> app-office/libreoffice-25.2.1.1
I don't know when it stopped working; I found xournal much more convenient for scribbling on other people's papers (though, unfortunately, much more limited in what it _can_ do).

dmpogo, what exact version do you have? The one that works?

I am on stable for almost everything, so it is

app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2

However, I tried on another machine that runs app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2-r1 and it opens it in Draw, but not in Impress (when I do it in Impress, nothing happens). Does anybody know how to force Impress from command line ?
If I do

loimpress pdffile.pdf it still opens it in Draw

PS, I see, on my original try, thought I was opening pdffile in Impress, libreoffice switched to Draw. OK, so it is just in Draw mode that pdfs were opened

PS2. I switched from xournal to xournalpp

[sam_]

Might also be https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/sho ... ?id=165433

[dmpogo]

Might also be https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/sho ... ?id=165433.

The link fails for me with 'not valid bug number'

[sam_]

Fixed. It's my bad habit of not using the markup.

[asturm]

Please test with app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2-r2 once it got available on your sync mirror.

[leyvi]

I've been using 25.2.1.2. The issue remains.

[asturm]

That's why I asked to

Please test with app-office/libreoffice-24.2.7.2-r2

:)

[sam_]

I'll backport the fix to 25.x but it would be nice if you could confirm that the 24.x fix actually helped or not...

[leyvi]

Good news: the latest version of LibreOffice (25.2.1.2-r1) runs just fine on my machine now, with LLVM/Clang, -O3 and LTO. PDFs open as expected again. Thanks for your hard work, sam_ and asturm!

[sam_]

You're most welcome - thank you for confirming!