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Asked: 2013-09-06 01:37:35 +0800 CST

LibreOffice PPA version has incompabilities with Unity, how to solve them?

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I have intermittent problems running LibreOffice 4.1.1.2 (from the PPA) on Precise 12.04.03. Sometimes when I am either opening or closing the document, the screen flashes and the unity panel disappears.

I am unable to Alt-tab between windows and sometimes my keyboard is not responsive (although Alt-Fx is able to get me to a console login).

if I keep a terminal window open, I am able to close windows down using my mouse and restart unity from the command line (if my keyboard is responsive).

Any ideas on a fix?

I purged the libreoffice-gtk package as per suggestions in other posts, to no effect.

In addition, when I run unity from the terminal, the crash generates these messages (which is meaningless to me, but may help others):

WARN  2013-09-05 11:41:09 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children:
No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application0xbf9060

ERROR 2013-09-05 11:41:11 unity.glib-gobject <unknown>:0 g_object_set_qdata: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
WARN 2013-09-05 11:42:06 unity <unknown>:0 Failed to fetch path:
No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.application' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application0xb8aa70
WARN  2013-09-05 11:42:06 unity <unknown>:0 Unable to fetch children:
No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.view' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application0xb8aa70

WARN  2013-09-05 11:42:06 unity <unknown>:0 Failed to fetch path:
No such interface `org.ayatana.bamf.application' on object at path /org/ayatana/bamf/application0xb8ae80
WARN  2013-09-05 11:42:06 unity.gdk <unknown>:0 compiz:
Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.

UPDATE 2: I suspect my issue is related to this bug, as I un-maximised the screen and have not had a problem. No workaround available yet, it seems : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/829384

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2 Answers

  1. You can install Libreoffice in a simple way.

    First remove the package.

    sudo apt-get purge libre-office*

    Download the latest libreoffice main installer. Untar and select all the packages with CTRL+A.

    Open a terminal and type 

    sudo dpkg -i

    Drag and drop all selected packages from file browser to the terminal and press enter.

    It will prompt you for your password and start installing the latest libreoffice.

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  2. Could you by chance have these problems only when opening / saving a file on a samba (or cifs) share (usually a distant windows file server)?

    If yes you may experience the (not fixed) bug reported at various places

    My current workaround is to open a blank/local openoffice file first... and then work as usual without experiencing this crash.

    hope this helps.

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