Bug#950225: libreoffice-writer: Immediate crash lunching mail merge wizard
Hi,
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:38:31AM +0100, Cesare Leonardi wrote:
> As soon as I click to start the wizard, LibreOffice closes and the Document
> Recovery window open up saying: "Due to an error, LibreOffice crashed..."
> Then the recovery process starts.
Mmh.
Indeed.
A 6.3.4-1 from bpo complains about Base not being installed when I try
to do what you did on a system where I deinstalled libreoffice-base
first.
A 6.4.0 crashes, as you say.
> I've never used the mail merge function before, so I don't know if it
> worked with previous LibreOffice versions.
It should not have changed considerably.
> I've never installed Java and I prefer to not have to. And searching around
> I've not found evidence that this function depends on Java: I've read it's
> written in python. Please, tell me if I'm wrong.
It depends. As long as the internal db comes into play there's Java
involved.
What is supposed to be your data source?
> ii libreoffice-base-core 1:6.4.0-1
What about libreoffice-base?
(That's why libreoffice depends on base, and that is why
libreoffice-writer suggests -base.)
What happens if you install -base? Maybe select a specific driver so you
don't get -sdbc-hsqldb (Java-based, thus depending on Java) per
default...
Regards,
Rene
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