Progress and not-so report
Monday, March 10th, 2014 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniSo, Illisidi is not yet perfect, but hopefully workable. The one biggest concern remains an outflowing of error messages the first time I open any file in LibreOffice. Once past the error messages, though, I can open files with impunity, and they seem not to be changing into oak leaves in the morning, so I guess I'm going to have to put up with what I can't fix. Certainly, I'm very tired, at this point, of uninstalling and reinstalling LibreOffice, and a writer must write with something.
Fans of Mozart will wish to hear that he has good days and bad days. He's a fan, currently, of Friskies gravy lovers with a liberal handful of Fancy Feast dry food on top, like jimmies. He eats the crunchies and licks up the gravy. If I could figure out a way to just put gravy over crunchies, I'd do that, but I'm afraid of feeding him the salt bomb that is canned gravy meant for consumption by Thumbs.
Fans of Sprite will wish to know that, for all her giddy ways, she takes her royal duties seriously. The other day, Mozart suddenly gave out with the Kitty in Trouble yell, from the living room. I got up to see what the problem was, to find that Sprite had arrived ahead of me and was vigorously washing his ears (See there, Grandpa? Everybody feels better when they have clean ears.), which really did seem to solve the problem/break the cycle of distress.
In other news, today is Monday, which, being as I'm a freelance, shouldn't matter, but somehow does. Perhaps because I was woken up by a nightmare, and took some time to settle again. Perhaps because it's a greyish morning, and we're under threat of Snowpocalypse. Again.
Whatever.
In a few minutes, I'll head out to town, errands, and the gym, and this afternoon, it's back to work.
How's the start of your week going?
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Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error
Date: 2014-03-10 04:58 pm (UTC)Sprite was reported by her former home, to be "very good" with the kittens, and I'm thinking that skillset is directly applicable to soothing the concerns of elder cats. She and Trooper really are awfully social.
The Error Messages Appear in this order, all four (or two sets of two, if you like it that way), one after the other. After they're cleared, I can either work on the file I've opened, or open another file without receiving error messages:
Error loading BASIC of document file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/LibreOffice%204/program/../share/basic/Launcher/script.xlb/:
General Error.
General input/output error.
Error loading BASIC of document file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/LibreOffice%204/program/../share/basic/Schedule/script.xlb/:
General Error.
General input/output error.
Error loading BASIC of document file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/LibreOffice%204/program/../share/basic/Launcher/dialog.xlb/:
General Error.
General input/output error.
Error loading BASIC of document file:///C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/LibreOffice%204/program/../share/basic/Schedule/dialog.xlb/:
General Error.
General input/output error.
Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error
Date: 2014-03-10 10:04 pm (UTC)thanks for the good wishes (and it's looking good so far on my health improving faster than the weather deteriorates).
Alright, I did a little research on these problems. There is a high probability (I'd give it somewhere around 95%) that this is not a problem of the program directly, but rather of your user profile for LibreOffice. Did you import old settings? Or only copy the document files and tried to open them again?
Short intro to profiles (just in case):
Sometimes multiple users use the same computer and use the same program. Each user may have different preferences on how to configure it, so the program stores individual settings for each user, which is called the "profile".
Anyway, the program doesn't remove profile settings when uninstalling, so reinstalling the program does not do a thing, it'll still be there when you reinstall. If you do not have any configurations that are essential to you, you could try to reset your profile. To do this, open your explorer and navigate to this place:
"%Userprofile%\AppData"
(Yes, you can copy this string without the hyphens and paste it to the explorer - not the internet explorer - addressbar. %userprofile% is a system shortcut for where all your settings are stored.) You'll end in your windows profile (where all your personal settings are stored) in the section for individual applications. It'll probably be at a path like "C:\Users\Rolanni\AppData", however the system tries to hide appdata, so you'll likely have to type it into the address bar. There are three subfolders "Local", "LocalLow" and "Roaming". Odds are, it'll be roaming, if you do not find it there, check local though.
In each of those folders there will be plenty subfolders, usually by company name, sometimes by application name, so check for a libreoffice-folder.
Make sure libre office isn't running during the actual operation:
- Rename the libreoffice-folder (maybe append a ".old").
This will make your settings invisible to LibreOffice without deleting them. Now start LibreOffice again.
If it didn't throw any errors: Congratulations!
If it did throw the same errors: Close LibreOffice again, delete the new profile folder it will have created, rename the old one to the original name and everything is back to how it was. You can check out the other folder beneath AppData I mentioned ("Local"), check for a LibreOffice folder there and repeat the process, hoping for more luck.
Anyway, that's the best advice I know to give,
Cheers,
Bosparan
Ps.: If you do have settings you do not want to loose no matter what (and which you cannot write down and reconfigure), you can perform the process described above on an individual file-level, renaming each file in the LibreOffice profile folder until you have found the culprit. It'll take a lot more effort though ...
Another thing one could check (but is less likely to be the culprit):
The official documentation mentioned use of Java for some features, so updating may help. Keeping Java up-to-date is a good practice anyway.
Ps2.: Sources and how I reached the recommendation (in case you want to backtrack my thoughts):
- If it keeps happening after reinstallation (and is basically compatible with the OS, which it is, I checked), then it has to have to do with something on the computer. Most other elements however don't interfere and profiles are fairly common culprits.
- If the error only happens when you first start the application, that usually means there's a problem in the start-up process. One of the things that happen there is loading of the profile. The error states it comes from two sources: "Schedule" and "Launcher" and while launcher may contain pretty much anything, a Schedule is usually something one can configure. Configuration usually means either profiles or global application settings and the latter would be wiped on an uninstall.
- Related research: OpenOffice uses many of the same tools, the error is known there, resetting profiles a solution that appears to work for most users. Here a link to a related entry (with further links to other reported incidents), in case you want to look it up yourself:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=16588
Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error
Date: 2014-03-11 11:52 am (UTC)https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6828
Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error
Date: 2014-03-12 10:50 pm (UTC)