Progress and not-so report

[rolanni]

So, 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?

Comments

[reedrover]

I'm glad that Sprite is taking care of Mozart as befits his station.

My week started out great. Our first baby goat of the season was born yesterday with all systems GO! and a lovely color pattern.

[pedanther]

The working portion of the day went about as well as it ever does, the trip to the gym was reasonably productive, and in the book I am re-reading Aelliana has just met Jen Sar Kiladi for the first time.

[margotinez.livejournal.com]

Jen Sar and not Daav?

Starting the week & Libre Office Error

[bosparan.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear Sprite is looking after Mozart :)

Myself, I had a great weekend over here (topping 70°F) with loads of sunshine and it carried over into Monday. Now if only I didn't have cold all weekend long ... (and yes, it carried over into Monday too ;-( ).

About that LibreOffice Error: Mind posting the error messages? Maybe nothing can be done about those, but maybe something can as well ...

Cheers

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Yay, baby goat!

Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Hope the cold retreats soon, and the nice weather continues. It would be too cruel if you got over the cold just in time for a raining streak.

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

[bosparan.livejournal.com]

Hi Sharon,

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

[pedanther]

Yes, Jen Sar. It's about two-thirds of the way through Mouse and Dragon, and she's known Daav for quite a while already - though she's still learning new things about him, Professor Kiladi being a case in point.

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Yes, Yaaaayy!!! Baby goats are cute!!!

[attilathepbnun.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear Sprite is washing Mozart's ears, and thus cheering him up.
Our cats can sometimes be found washing the dog's ears --- as well as each other's.

Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error

[pc1739.livejournal.com]

Might be a bit technical but...

https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6828

bug list...

[gareth griffiths (from livejournal.com)]

Don't know much about LibreOffice but google found this...

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47953
Sounds like that issue...

[catherine kelleher (from livejournal.com)]

And one of our two whippets will do a thorough jobs on the cat's ears and the other dog's ears. She would love to do ours, but we sort of discourage that.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

The aged Miss Cleopesta (not a typo *grin*) is fond of gravy as well. I make broth for her without salt (or seasoning) and add it to her food. She frequently sucks her food dry without actually eating it--she has been accused of being a vampire--but the additional fluids are helpful to her. In Ohio I can buy a ten-pound block of frozen organic chicken necks for five dollars, which makes a bounteous quantity of soup stock for cat and humans alike (ours has salt and seasonings, naturally). In Costa Rica "la Reina de los gatos" eats boneless chicken leg meat, the bones of which go to make her consommé. Making chicken stock is remarkably easy when working from home, as it requires a lot of time but very little attention.

[catherine kelleher (from livejournal.com)]

On the topic of soup stocks, some Asian stocks are boiled until the bones dissolve. This provided calcium in non milk drinking areas. I found this technical discussion of the process http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/02/how-to-make-tonkotsu-ramen-broth-at-home-recipe.html

Re: Starting the week & Libre Office Error

[zola.livejournal.com]

http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/1641/error-loading-basic-of-document-file/