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

[Eduardo Casais <casaise@bluewin.ch>]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:23:20 +0200 Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> tag 865303 - unreproducible
> severity 865303 important
> severity 865303 libreoffice: Libreoffice Java features crash with Linux 3.16.43-2+deb8u1
> reassign 865303 src:linux
> found 865303 3.16.43-2+deb8u1
> affects 865303 libreoffice
> thanks
>
> Hi,
>
> OK; that was the clue. I already saw openjdk accessed in your strace but that's
> the case also in normal startup if you have Java stuff.
>
> Indeed, LOs Java stuff crash :(. Checked with "just" creating a database.
> (which uses hsqldb.)
>
> Downgrading _the kernel_ (and of course rebooting) fixes it.
>
> No idea whether only LOs Java stuff is affected or more JDK usage (besides
> #865311...), but...
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene

After removing the suspect LibreOffice extension, re-installing the 
updates, and re-booting, it appears that LibreOffice starts without 
problem.

So it indeed seems that something is not quite right in a dark corner of 
Java libraries. So far, I have not stumbled on any critical function 
that could be impaired by that incompatibility between the revised 
kernel and Java, but it is still too early to tell. If anything, I will 
report it.

Thanks for the speedy investigation.

Sincerely

E.Casais