Bug#618603: libreoffice-core: "Error loading BASIC of document .../.libreoffice/3/user/basic/script.xlc: General Error. General input/output error." every time libreoffice starts

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 09:53:09PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> severity 618603 minor
> tag 618603 + wontfix
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 08:00:26PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> > I have just upgraded to libreoffice from Ooo.  Now, every time I start
> > libreoffice in a new Gnome session, I get the error message:
> > 
> >   Error loading BASIC of document
> >   file:///home/jdg/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/script.xlc/:
> >   General Error.
> >   General input/output error.
> > 
> > I have no idea what this error is about or where it originates; I do
> > not have such a directoryi[...]
> 
> You *do* have a .libreoffice/3. At latest after the first start.
> Otherwise LibreOffice wouldn't have any (user) config.

Correct.  But the document (.../script.xlc/) appears from the message
to be a directory (note the trailing slash); it turns out from your
directory listing that this is misleading and it is actually a file.

> > , and an rgrep for script.xlc in ~/.[a-z] turned up nothing, [...]
> 
> rene@frodo:~/.libreoffice/3/user/basic$ ls -l
> insgesamt 12
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rene rene  406 15. Mär 23:46 dialog.xlc
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rene rene  406 15. Mär 23:46 script.xlc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 rene rene 4096 18. Jan 20:41 Standard

However, I have:

polya:~/.libreoffice/3/user/basic $ ls -l
total 8
-rw-r--r-- 1 jdg jdg  406 Feb  3 20:49 dialog.xlc
drwxr-xr-x 2 jdg jdg 4096 Mar 16 14:48 Standard/

> > so I have no clue why it is trying to look for a script in this location.
> 
> You have no clue why LibO is looking inside its user config?

To be more precise: I have no idea why LibO is looking for the file
"~/.libreoffice/3/user/basic/script.xlc" when I (a) do not have such a
file, and (b) there is no reference to such a file anywhere in the
LibO user configuration.

> Anyway, this is a upgrade bug when LibO finds a OOo 1.1.x or so config
> still around....

No, I don't have any OOo 1.1.x configuration anywhere.  I did,
however, have a file called ~/.openoffice.org/3/user/basic/script.xlc
prior to the upgrade, but that now no longer exists on the machine
from which I reported the bug.  However, on a second machine which I
also upgraded today, both the .openoffice.org and .libreoffice
versions of script.xlc exist.

It seems that something a bit weird has happened during the upgrade
process, therefore.

You might wish to reconsider the severity and tags of this bug in the
light of this further information.

   Julian