This has been actually happening since my pkg installed libreoffice 4.3 (or around. I had kept using since prior version and updating via pkg ) but recently I noticed 5.0 version is under ports so I installed this version. The installation seemed OK (showed below message saying that missing shared library libjawt.so which seems to be related to Java Run Time Environment so I symbolic linked from lib search path of LibreOffice from /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program to /usr/local/openjdk7/jre/lib/amd64/libjawt.so and 2 other shared library also related to JRE - libjvm.so & libmawt.so ) ---------- ===> Registering installation for libreoffice-5.0.1_1 (libreoffice-5.0.1_1) /usr/ports/editors/libreoffice/work/stage//usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libofficebean.so - required shared library libjawt.so not found Installing libreoffice-5.0.1_1... ---------- % libreoffice --version LibreOffice 5.0.1.2.0 00m0(Build:2) After above, I run % libreoffice But there just appear LibreOffice 5 splash image and nothing else happens. (This was same with pkg installed LibreOffice 4.3 environment - It just showed LibreOffice 4 splash image and nothing else happend.) I noticed this ↓ report "Bug 176269 - editors/libreoffice 3.6.5_2 does not start on i386 " https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=176269 and followed how to collect trace info. It's below. ----- ◯ base env % freebsd-version -k 10.2-RELEASE % freebsd-version -u 10.2-RELEASE-p3 ◯ cat /var/db/ports/editors_libreoffice/options info % cat /var/db/ports/editors_libreoffice/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # Options for libreoffice-4.2.5 _OPTIONS_READ=libreoffice-4.2.5 _FILE_COMPLETE_OPTIONS_LIST=CUPS DEBUG GNOME GTK2 GTK3 JAVA KDE4 MMEDIA PGSQL SDK SYSTRAY TEST VERBOSE WEBDAV OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=CUPS OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=DEBUG OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=GNOME OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=GTK2 OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=GTK3 OPTIONS_FILE_SET+=JAVA OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=KDE4 OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=MMEDIA OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=PGSQL OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=SDK OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=SYSTRAY OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=TEST OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=VERBOSE OPTIONS_FILE_UNSET+=WEBDAV ◯ gdb trace % gdb /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin soffice.bin.core GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)... Core was generated by `soffice.bin'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3 Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.7...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.7 Reading symbols from /lib/libthr.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done. 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Loaded symbols for /usr/local/lib/libgpg-error.so.0 Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libssl.so.7...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libssl.so.7 Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypto.so.7...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypto.so.7 Reading symbols from /libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done. Loaded symbols for /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 #0 0x0000000800e4ad2a in fwrite () from /lib/libc.so.7 [New Thread 816807000 (LWP 100863/<unknown>)] [New Thread 816806400 (LWP 100726/<unknown>)] (gdb) where #0 0x0000000800e4ad2a in fwrite () from /lib/libc.so.7 #1 0x0000000800e49489 in mpool_get () from /lib/libc.so.7 #2 0x00000008054686d8 in tools::extendApplicationEnvironment () from /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libtllo.so #3 0x0000000800abc618 in soffice_main () from /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/libsofficeapp.so #4 0x0000000000400860 in ?? () #5 0x000000000040076f in ?? () #6 0x0000000800620000 in ?? () #7 0x0000000000000000 in ?? () (gdb)
By encountering below info, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31352 especially below written above rm /home/user/.config/libreoffice -> no effect I checked my home directory ~/.config/libreoffice and noticed lock file has been created. ~/.config/libreoffice/.lock I renamed it to ".lock-old" and now LibreOffice is launched normally.