Bug#1087383: libreoffice: does not start if a soffice.bin process is running
Control: reassign -1 unoconv 0.7-2
Control: retitle -1 unoconv should not use the default LibreOffice profile - can break LibreOffice with GUI
Control: severity -1 serious
Control: affects -1 libreoffice
According to the upstream bug
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165417
(Comment 1), LibreOffice is working as intended, and the issue comes
from unoconv itself:
"That tool itself shouldn't use the default LibreOffice profile - that
would avoid interference between it and the interactive LibreOffice
instance. But that is a bug of that tool."
Since this has a major effect on a separate application (LibreOffice),
I'm raising the bug severity.
Note: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1087368
makes this problem much worse, but this is an independent bug.
Even if Debian bug 1087368 were fixed now:
* An ongoing conversion would affect LibreOffice (with GUI).
* The -l option permanently breaks LibreOffice (with GUI),
i.e. as long as the server is running.
It isn't even possible to choose a different LibreOffice profile from
the unoconv command line (as a workaround).
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