Bug#882882: /usr/bin/libreoffice: Fails to start after update

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 07:55:36PM +0100, Theo Widmer wrote:
> After updating libreoffice for the last 3 times, after every update, I cannot start libreoffice.
> Instead the following error appears:
> "The application cannot be started. Extension Manager: exception in synchronize"

Do you have more info here? Like strace? (Don't forget -f...)

> The problem can easily rectified by changing the timestamp of a file in my profile:
> cd ~/.config/libreoffice/4/user/extensions/bundled
> touch lastsynchronized
> 
> I can easily reproduce the error by setting the time stamp of the lastsynchronized file to
> a date before the update, e.g.
> touch --date "2017-11-10" lastsynchronized

Hmm.

> Should some package update set this time stamp, but fails to do so?

No, that's LOs realm. But extensions updates touch
/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/extensions to make LO do the syncronization
on the next start (and that probably touches this). This is far from
new, though.

[...]

But neither of those are extensions anyway. Besides the fact that no
change in -3 would explain this.

Regards,

Rene