LOo don't start : Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large

Question

cylere@Lalla:~$ uname -a
Linux Lalla 3.19.0-25-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:17:31 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

cylere@Lalla:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 15.10 \n \l

• The command line soffice or loffice lock with no return, necessary to use CTRL+C to exit.

• With icon soffice or writer, a popup with error :

"Impossible to launch the application."
Failed to updatefile:///home/cylere/.config/libreoffice/4/user/extensions/bundled/lastsynchronized

This file (lastsynchronized) have only the character 1 inside.

• Sometime on the terminal
  (soffice:3567): Gdk-WARNING **: gdk_window_set_icon_list: icons too large

They are all messages I got, and LibreOffice don't start.

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This appear from some time, but I could use soffice or loffice to start LOo, but after a recent upgrade, nothing works

Solution

In case it helps - I had the same issue (with the same warning) and solved it by deleting the folder .config/libreoffice. It got recreated when I launched libreoffice again. I'm sure I lost some settings but nothing important...

Comments

[mikewhatever]

Ubuntu 15.10 was released with kernel 4.2. How did you end up with 3.19?

[cl-r]

@mikewhatever -- I let automatic upgrade do the job (from a French server) since I've installed Ubuntu !! How can I upgrade the system without breaking all things around ?

[cl-r]

Efficient after migration to 20.04

[Yoann Pageaud]

This doesn't work in Ubuntu 16.04. the same error keeps happening, even after deleting .config/libreoffice