I launch LibreOffice base, create a new base, use all the default (HSQLDB), just click next, OK, chose a file name, click OK, and it crashes.
soffice.bin crashed with SIGSEGV
It is a 32-bit machine, It crashes with 16.04 (tried OpenJDK 8.131 and Oracle Java 8.144 and tried updating LO to latest version), it crashes also with the newest 17.04, fully updated.
I tried on a physical machine and on another one in VirtualBox.
It does not crash using a 64bit install.
Any hint??
1 Answer
I finally found some info. Issue started mid June 2017.
- LibreOffice Base does not work on a 32 bit Linux machine
- It should be fixed with a new kernel release (hopefully)
- It is a change in the kernel (security fix) that affected Java that is required for LibreOffice Base
- Neither Ubuntu or LibreOffice or OpenJDK can fix this kernel issue (OK, maybe OpenJDK could also fix it)
- There IS a workaround (tested on 16.04 and 17.04): "Add kernel parameter
stack_guard_gap=1"
Edit the file /etc/default/grub and change the line beginning GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to include the parameter, for example after your edit it may look like this:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash stack_guard_gap=1"then run sudo update-grub and reboot.
You should remove this parameter when the new kernel solve the issue (test), because I guess is it less secure without stack_guard ...
References:
- The Ubuntu bug report
- The LibreOffice bug report
- A Linux Kernel Mailing List post by Ben Hutchings
- Problematic code
Looks like I cannot post more than 2 Links here. But complete answer is here at ask.libreoffice.org.
