Today I opened LibreOffice Writer for the first time in 2 weeks +/-. I find that all of the documents that I saved previously (odt format) are blank, i.e. when I open any previously saved document I get a single blank page and on the status bar it says "0 words, 0 characters".
If I create a new document, enter some text, save the document, close write, start write, reopen the document - same thing, the document is blank as described above.
Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
Edit: I tried deleting my profile as described here: Resolving corruption, that did not help.
Edit #2:
@Bodo:
Can you create a file with contents using a command (echo test > test.txt) or a different program, e.g. gedit?
Yes. Furthermore if I examine the contents of the odt files I can see that they are not empty.
@N0rbert:
Does this answer your question? Libreoffice broke after updating to Ubuntu 21.10
I tried reinstalling libreoffice and clearing my config folder as per your response to that issue, it did not fix the problem unfortunately. I am on ubuntu 20.04. There was a big update a couple days ago and I strongly suspect that that is the cause of the problem.
Edit #3: I installed abiword and with that I am able to edit my odt files as normal.
Edit #4: As requested in the comments by N0rbert:
erik@laptop2:~$ which lowriter
/usr/bin/lowriter
erik@laptop2:~$ apt-cache policy libreoffice
libreoffice:
Installed: 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Candidate: 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.2
Version table:
*** 1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/universe amd64 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/universe amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1:6.4.2-0ubuntu3 500
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
erik@laptop2:~$ snap list | grep -i libreoffice
erik@laptop2:~$ flatpak list | grep -i libreoffice
Command 'flatpak' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install flatpak
