Bug#865303: libreoffice: Libreoffice crashes silently upon startup after complaining about canberra module and murrine engine

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 865303 + unreproducible
retitle 865303 libreoffice: Libreoffice crashes silently upon startup
thanks

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 07:21:20PM +0200, Eduardo Casais wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 16:12:20 +0200 Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> >On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:39:03PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >> There were linux and glibc updates indeed. No idea whether they broke it, can you
> >> try reverting them one-by-one and whether it fixes it?
> >>
> >> Guess I need to setup a oldstable VM and try...
> >
> >Some other reports come in for this for other packages. A interesting data point
> >would be whether this also works without Java. (Either downgrade, disable Java
> >and test after the upgrade. Also after upgrade re-enable Java and see. Or remove the
> >LO Java stuff...)
> >
> >Will try that at home, too, though after installing a oldstable...
[...]
> Here is an addition to the error report.
> 
> 7) The problem was provisorily solved in the following way:
> 
> In Synaptic, force the re-installation to a downgraded version of all
> following packages:
> 
> linux-image-3.0.16-4-amd64 to 3.16.43-2
> libffi6 to 3.1-2+b2
> multiarch-support, locales, libc6 and libc-bin to 2.19-18+deb8u9
> 
> I did not try a systematic search for the smallest set of packages that
> would bring LibreOffice working again. Basically, it was a partial "undo" of
> the 2017-06-19 standard Debian update.

I installed a fresh jessie inside a libvirt VM. The installer alraedy
applies the security updates - thus I got the new kernel and libc6 etc.
(libffi isn't used by LO)

Starts fine for me...

-> unreproducible

Regards,

Rene