found 633929 1:3.4.5-5 tag 633929 -moreinfo thanks I get this when starting libreoffice without any file. I too have deleted .libreoffice and .openoffice.org2. Both directories are recreated each time. I even tried moving /etc/libreoffice out of the way, on the assumption that a "central configuration" would be there -- didn't help. Googleing for "A general error occurred while accessing your central configuration." will find several other people with the same problem, or at least the same error message, going back at least to 2010. It seems likely to be caused by mismatches between different installed parts of libreoffice. See my list of versions below. And it went away when I dist-upgraded a consistent set of versions. So, fixing this in debian would seem to involve some tighter dependency versioning. This probably explains why the reports I have found involve either: a) Debian (or Ubuntu), which split libreoffice into lots of parts b) other users who are manually installing plugins, etc. <rant target=upstream> This is a stunningly bad error message. Surely the first step on receiving a bug like this, rather than mark it unreproducible, is to find the error message in the source and fix it to report on what actually went wrong, where? </rant> ii libreoffice 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite ii libreoffice-base 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- database ii libreoffice-base-core 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- shared library ii libreoffice-calc 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- spreadsheet ii libreoffice-common 1:3.4.6-2 office productivity suite -- arch-independent files ii libreoffice-core 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- arch-dependent files ii libreoffice-draw 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- drawing ii libreoffice-emailmerge 1:3.5.2~rc2-1 office productivity suite -- email mail merge ii libreoffice-filter-binfilter 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.2) ii libreoffice-filter-mobiledev 1:3.5.2~rc2-1 office productivity suite -- mobile devices filters ii libreoffice-gtk 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- GTK+ integration ii libreoffice-help-en-us 1:3.5.2~rc2-1 office productivity suite -- English_american help ii libreoffice-impress 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- presentation ii libreoffice-java-common 1:3.5.2~rc2-1 office productivity suite -- arch-independent Java support files ii libreoffice-math 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- equation editor ii libreoffice-report-builder-bin 1:3.4.6-2 LibreOffice extension for building database reports -- libraries ii libreoffice-style-galaxy 1:3.4.6-2 office productivity suite -- Galaxy (Default) symbol style ii libreoffice-writer 1:3.4.5-5 office productivity suite -- word processor -- see shy jo
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