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

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

tag 865303 + moreinfo
thanks

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 02:16:51PM +0200, Eduardo Casais wrote:
> Upon launching LibreOffice, a series of error messages is produced, then the
> program exits:
[...]
> (soffice:510): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path:
> "murrine",
> 
> (soffice:510): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path:
> "murrine",
> 
> (soffice:510): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path:
> "murrine",
> 
> (soffice:510): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path:
> "murrine",
> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
> 
> 2) Symptom two
> 
> After installing gtk2-engines-murrine via Synaptic, the error messages are
> reduced to:

Haven't seen that. But if you want murrine (no idea what that is and how you set it,
it definitely doesn't exist in Debian...) you of course want to install it.

> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"

Had that always. Harmless.

> messages are produced -- but LibreOffice still fails to start. The banner
> "LibreOffice" is present for a very short time, then the programe exits without
> any message.

Hmm.

There were linux and glibc updates indeed. No idea whether they broke it, can you
try reverting them one-by-one and whether it fixes it?

Guess I need to setup a oldstable VM and try... 

Regards,

Rene