Bug#949278: libreoffice hangs at startup if ~/.libreoffice folder does not exist

[Pierre Bernhardt <pierre@starcumulus.owl.de>]

Am 20.01.20 um 11:14 schrieb Rene Engelhard:
> You mean keep the .config/libreoffice and remove the old .libreoffice.

No, really mean remove the link .config/libreoffice which points to .libreoffice,
remove .libreoffice and then next start .config/libreoffice will be recreated
by starting libreoffice.

However the loop itself is a bug and a symlink is not an error. It is a regular
tool to point to another place whenever it is wanted. Each software should deal
with them and if it is not allowed/supported, it should show a message e.g.
displayed by an exception handling. But supporting a symlink is not really
hard to support.

PS: Don't know how long the .libreoffice folder exists. It could be very long
in the past maybe before libreoffice has to been forked from openoffice. Maybe
I renamed/copied it from .openoffice to .libreoffice or whatever. But let us
stop this kind of discussion, when and how it has been created. It has been
worked for many years and only after removing my config the problem occurs
by the endless loop.

Cheers,
Pierre