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Libreoffice crashing trying open a pptx file

rickiferbarros — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 20:25:51 GMT

Hi users.I'm having a problem with my Alfresco Share. I have a "pptx file" whose when I try to preview it, the message "The Preview cannot be loaded from server". In addition, Libreoffice stop to work (CRASH) and I have to start the libreoffice_ctl.sh script again, otherwise, I can't convert other f

Re: Libreoffice crashing trying open a pptx file

angelborroy — Mon, 05 May 2014 15:30:59 GMT

Alfresco Enterprise provides a JOD converter pool in order to avoid these problems, but there is no alternative on Alfresco Community: when a memory link occurs, LibreOffice crashes.

You can use a service script to restart LibreOffice process without restarting Alfresco. An example for Ubuntu can be found at https://github.com/loftuxab/alfresco-ubuntu-install/blob/master/scripts/libreoffice.sh.

Re: Libreoffice crashing trying open a pptx file

rickiferbarros — Thu, 15 May 2014 13:50:29 GMT

Thanks for the answer Angel. I'd already done a script for this calling just the libreoffice_ctl.sh. So, that's the only solution for while. One more time, thank you.