Arch Linux

I have the same problem with libreoffice-pl-3.6.1-1

Downgrading language pack to 3.5.6-1 solved problem.

Yeah, with libreoffice-pl-3.5.6-1 and clucene works again

I'm using "libreoffice-en-US" instead of "libreoffice-pt-BR", and works well.

Same problem with libreoffice-fr.
Downgrading language solved problem.

Looks like - at least with libreoffice-de - it's looking for extensions. Installing the extensions (all of them?) seems to solve the problem according to https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31352#comment98618 I won't do that, for now I'll use libreoffice-en-US.

Just tested with one extension and all works fine.
You need at least one extension or the group package libreoffice-extensions

Yes, confirmed.

Another confirmation of the flashing loop issue but with a slight twist:

it is happening with libreoffice-en-US.

I have the following installed:

local/libreoffice-calc 3.6.1-1 (libreoffice)
local/libreoffice-common 3.6.1-1 (libreoffice)
local/libreoffice-en-US 3.6.1-1
local/libreoffice-extension-pdfimport 3.6.1-1 (libreoffice-extensions)
local/libreoffice-impress 3.6.1-1 (libreoffice)
local/libreoffice-writer 3.6.1-1 (libreoffice)

I installed clucene separately and re-installed libreoffice-en-US which pulled in sdl (???) and then running soffice on cli gets this:

[dcheung@hydra ~]$ soffice
I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"
(repeating)

One more thing: soffice starts fine here WITHOUT clucene installed!

packages:
% pacman -Qsq libreoffice
libreoffice-base
libreoffice-calc
libreoffice-common
libreoffice-de
libreoffice-draw
libreoffice-extension-pdfimport
libreoffice-gnome
libreoffice-impress
libreoffice-math
libreoffice-writer

% pacman -Qs clucene
% echo $?
1

So far I can't confirm this issue. I'm using the german langpack on all my systems.

Feel free to diff the langpacks for missing files/directories. Because we only repackage the upstream rpm langpacks there's not much we can do here. Please investigate this further with upstream help if needed.

damnit, ignore this (refreshing with webkit browsers always reenters the comments...)

Same problem with libreoffice-it 3.6.1

sudo pacman -Q | grep libreoffice
libreoffice-calc 3.6.1-2
libreoffice-common 3.6.1-2
libreoffice-impress 3.6.1-2
libreoffice-it 3.6.1-1
libreoffice-math 3.6.1-2
libreoffice-writer 3.6.1-2

Installing libreoffice-extension-presentation-minimizer (or another extension) and lcms2 (https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31383) solved the problem

I can confirm the bug with the "de" langpack, too.

1. Update to libreoffice 3.6.1-1

2. libreoffice doesn't start, complaining about:

exception occurred raising singleton "/singletons/com.sun.star.deployment.ExtensionManager": loading component library failed: file:///usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libdeployment.so

3. Installed package clucene

4. libreoffice still fails to start with a flickering splash-screen

5. Installed "libreoffice-extension-pdfimport-3.6.1-1"

6. Libreoffice is working again.

Please everybody use LibO 3.6.1-2 from testing and try deleting ~/.config/libreoffice

Do you get some console output with the flickering screen? Please search for upstream reports. I remember some different starting issues in late RCs.

I've just installed the 3.6.1-2 packages but didn't deleted the ~/.config/libreoffice. Libreoffice starts without any problems. I've even removed libreoffice-extension-pdfimport and libreoffice still starts as expected and I can work on my documents.

Had same issue with libreoffice-da and clucene.
Installed en-GB, which solved the issue. Then reinstalled da and removed en-GB, and not it works fine.

ok, here's the weird part: I updated to 3.6.1-3 and still got the locale en_US mesg:

I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale "en_US"

which appears to be looping. Then as per AndyRTR's suggestion, ~/.config/libreoffice was nuked and soffice was re-invoked on the command line which gave the same locale warning, BUT it did not loop and was able to start successfully. My concern now is whether or not there some internal issues that's going to manifest in screwed up documents due to locale handling.

Also, when I look at my environmental variables, my LANG=C which I can't ever remember seeing prior to this whole systemd/rc.conf work. Not sure if it is related in any way, shape or form and more importantly, this is not meant to imply any bias towards or against systemd.

Please everybody make sure you properly set LANG with systemd. Check "locale" output. Also please post some useful info about your desktop, architecture and everything that could be useful. A full strace could help and maybe readelf -d can find some missing dep.

Please someone try to apply that single commit for testing: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6d261e7aac12a876acb6496085e5329632595d39

Further changes can be found here: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?h=libreoffice-3-6

LC_COLLATE=C in /etc/locale.conf solved the problem.

this is what I have on my working systems with systemd:

cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE=C

cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=de_DE.UTF-8

that's all in my case. Libreoffice 3.6.1-3 from today seems to run fine.

My environment: KDE 4.9.00 on x86_64

Please test 3.6.1-4 that should solve all blinking splash screen issues when no extensions are installed and langpacks are used.

(Extension detections was broken even when the config dir was removed, it worked with old config dirs or when at least one extension got was installed)

LO 3.6.1-4 fixes the issue for me.

fixed here with 3.6.1-4