From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E1FB1382C5 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:21:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60CD1E086A; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:21:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail143c7.megamailservers.com (mail119c7-2520.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.26]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E2B6CE083D for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 22:21:25 +0000 (UTC) X-Authenticated-User: info.sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from [10.0.0.100] ([184.69.242.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail143c7.megamailservers.com (8.14.9/8.13.1) with ESMTP id w0LMLFpV025565 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2018 17:21:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user][SOLVED] Libreoffice-5.4.2.2 fails to start To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <2b2afb06-2b55-5d75-9646-57209696b2b0@sys-concept.com> <81b793bc-ca27-e82b-cac1-fb579a9c6760@gmail.com> <79d825c3-9ad9-5d8d-bbd6-e30c9fb9fcc0@sys-concept.com> <8ad2b2d6-618e-b825-ea7c-2f693a178eaa@sys-concept.com> <178e9840-0685-73f5-7db5-ac2c10f9f866@sys-concept.com> <5A645A5E.2040809@youngman.org.uk> From: thelma@sys-concept.com Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 15:21:35 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5A645A5E.2040809@youngman.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.5A651265.0056,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.2 cv=IIVyMknG c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:117 a=u3gW5Uk2xAGXuEgp5FffjQ==:17 a=eIhxMilvRf8A:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=046jbqsEAAAA:8 a=fDTos1sLnIZ-C5foUgsA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=bGzDz6Hpkc7_N_b525It:22 X-Archives-Salt: 84fb5629-d108-4e54-9969-7da5bde3b408 X-Archives-Hash: b129a3761ec25b07fb60cc826d6e8899 On 01/21/2018 02:16 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > On 20/01/18 01:11, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: >> On 01/19/2018 05:25 PM, thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: >> [snip] >>> >>> The strange part is that on the same box I created a new "user" and >>> Libreoffice works just fine. >>> But it will not work when I log in. >>> >>> I've deleted the folder setting. /home/joseph/.config/libreoffice/ >>> and copied the same folder from new user directory back to my directory. >>> Libreofice still will not start. >>> >>> Joseph >> >> Additional information. >> When I try to start soffice help I'm getting this error >> >> soffice --help >> X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. >> >> (process:24269): dconf-CRITICAL **: unable to create file '/var/run/user/1000/dconf/user': Permission denied. dconf will not work properly. >> LibreOffice 5.4.2.2.0 40m0(Build:2) >> >> This error does not show up when I run it as new user that I just created. >> >> > This is intuition, not knowledge, but /var/run is, I think, stuff that > should appear when you log in, and disappear when you log out. > > Log out, log in as root (or su from another user) and see if > /var/run/user/1000 exists. Rename it to something else in case you need > the contents, and then see if libreoffice works. > > If everything seems okay, get rid of the old version > > (My system has multiple users, I'm the only person logged in, and folder > 1000 (my user-id) is the only one there. I guess somehow some old file > has got "stuck" and needs deleting.) > > Cheers, > Wol I solved it by unmerging / emerging "libreoffice". The system required reboot, after that libreoffice start working for all users on the machine. This is like a Windows solution, they always ask you to reboot the computer :-/ Joseph