Libre Office help - I managed to break Libre Office - Solved

[Topher]

I was trying to tame Mail Merge in Writer. It sure seems to be picky-ticky and I was trying to do something that is a bit different than the code writers envisioned. So this was maybe my 25th time trying to get things to look like I wanted them to look. But trying to remove a data set caused it to freeze. So I used Ctrl-Alt-Esc to kill it. And now I can't get Writer or Calc or LibreOffice to start. Help

[CharlesV]

A couple of things you can try.

First, if you have not already, restart the computer and try it .

Second, rename the libreoffice folder in your .confg (or move it to a backup area) - Note, this WILL remove all of your saved settings!)

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mv ~/.config/libreoffice ~/.config/libreoffice_saved

Third, run MX Cleanup and make sure ~/cache is checked. ( you can uncheck the rest - or dont empty if you want.)
- Note: If you have stacer installed, I would run that and clean up the application cache area. I believe it is the same area that is cleaned by the MX Tool, but I have found that to really clear up some issues at times when MX Clean up doesnt.

And last if none of those work, then its purge libreoffice and reinstall

[Topher]

Rebooting worked. In 20+ years of using LO this is the first time that I sort of broke it. And on a restart it asked if I wanted to recover the file.

[CharlesV]

Libreoffice has many modules that run when started, and sometimes they get orphaned and then it wont start properly. Saw this a lot on windows, not so much in Linux.

Glad that was the fix :-)