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 16:12:20 +0200 Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 03:39:03PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > 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...
>
> Some other reports come in for this for other packages. A interesting data point
> would be whether this also works without Java. (Either downgrade, disable Java
> and test after the upgrade. Also after upgrade re-enable Java and see. Or remove the
> LO Java stuff...)
>
> Will try that at home, too, though after installing a oldstable...
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene

Here is an addition to the error report.

7) The problem was provisorily solved in the following way:

In Synaptic, force the re-installation to a downgraded version of all 
following packages:

linux-image-3.0.16-4-amd64 to 3.16.43-2
libffi6 to 3.1-2+b2
multiarch-support, locales, libc6 and libc-bin to 2.19-18+deb8u9

I did not try a systematic search for the smallest set of packages that 
would bring LibreOffice working again. Basically, it was a partial 
"undo" of the 2017-06-19 standard Debian update.

Sincerely