Bug#819153: libreoffice: LibreOffice crashes when trying to edit diagrams: "does not expose __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast()"
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 10:25:49AM +0100, Leon Winter wrote:
> (a) LibreOffice wrongfully loads the module and maybe should have tried to load
> another .so before which could provide the symbol in question
TTBOMK LO just links with libGL. It loads Impress, yes, but it does that
always. It's not LOs job to initialize the mesa modules.
> (b) LibreOffice internally relies on the symbol to be resolved and swrast should
> be a hard dependency in the debian package
Indeed.
> But is it though? First links suggests it is not possible. I found an option to
> disable HW acceleration in LO but changing that did not fix the problem. Again,
> I assume that LO tries to load the module in any case even if I have HW
> acceleration disabled.
That "HW acceleration" thing has nothing to do with OpenGL. Yes, it's confusingly named. Read it as "Use Cairo".
> Depends. If you go with (a) it would be LO bug and if you go with (b) it would
> be a bug in mesa or the debian package of mesa.
So it's b).
Regards,
Rene
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