LibreOffice not working, sun::uno error

[Nachordez]

Hi!
Since last update (2025-02-04) libreoffice has stopped working.
I’ve tried deleting my .config/libreoffice folder, and reistalling libreoffice, both in fresh and still compilations, so that it’s a new fresh install of the program.
Always the same problem. The splash screen starts and stops. Lauched from terminal, the only message I’ve got is:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
And nothing more than I can find…
Any help is welcome! I do really need libreoffice, and I’d prefer no to use flatpack or snap…
I have no plgin installed. Just libreoffice-fresh packages (from pacman, nothing more added, 24.8.4-2), and the libreoffice-fresh-en-gb and libreoffice-fresh-es packages for language.
Any idea?

[Zauberer-Merlin]

Don’t know your system as any input is missing.

But - just googled:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=206869

Libreoffice doesn't start

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The solution for exactly your error message was that GTK3 was missing - did you try this already?

[Ben]

@Nachordez

terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘com::sun::uno::RuntimeException’

Yup, @Zauberer-Merlin beat me to it.

terminate called after throwing an instance of...

I have the same version - it opens cleanly with a warning:

javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

Nothing to worry about.

[soundofthunder]

@Ben

Nothing to worry about.

Unless one wishes to use LibreOffice features that actually do require a JRE.

• https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Java

If I understand correctly, The Document Foundation has long aimed to reduce the LibreOffice dependence on Java, but I’m uncertain what the current status is.

[Nachordez]

Thanks, but that’s no the case, I have GTK2, GTK3 and GTK4 installed, son that’s no it. Also tried the java disabled question proposed there, but also not working.
I’ll continue trying!

[Nachordez]

No, that’s not the question here. I have working java (was also before the update), and if I try to set not ti use java, the error stays there.
It has to be another question… Thanks anyway!

[Nachordez]

I does not seem to be a Java problem. If I set the parameters not to use java,
in .config/libreoffice/4/user/config/javasettings
it gives the worning about java not being used, but the same error

So, it seems to be other problem…

[Nachordez]

SOLVED!
Such an stupid question (as always…)
I was deleting my

.config/libreoffice

folder, to get a fresh install. But it seems that I was needing to delete also the

/etc/libreoffice

folder. And there are thing remainig there that were broking the app. So, I delete that, and everything worked.
Then I copy my older .config/libreoffice folder to get my data, history… and all broke again. But copying it folder by folder proved that the problematic one was 4/user/uno_packages (as easy to guess from messages), so I did copy everything but this one, and all is properly working now.
Thanks!