Opening LibreOffice writer takes a long time

Aan Triono · Mar 12, 2024

I'm using FreeBSD 14.0 with gnome. To open LibreOffice Writer, it takes a long time for the laptop fan to start beeping. But if you open other applications it is not long and smooth. I don't know what caused it? Thank you for help.

Alain De Vos · Mar 12, 2024

How much memory does the laptop has ?

Aan Triono · Mar 12, 2024

Alain De Vos said:
How much memory does the laptop has ?

I use a Lenovo Thinkpad T470s laptop with 12 GB RAM and 256 GB storage.

arachnid · Apr 3, 2024

Aan Triono said:
I'm using FreeBSD 14.0 with gnome. To open LibreOffice Writer, it takes a long time for the laptop fan to start beeping. But if you open other applications it is not long and smooth. I don't know what caused it? Thank you for help.

do you have installed package for font iosevka? if yes, then try to remove this package

Perceval · Apr 3, 2024

Do you have a Read-Only error or a lock file somewhere ?
I did have the same problem while opening network based files (on doc/docx files if I remember), latest LibreOffice updates solved it BUT now files are locked by default if there's a lock file present.
Can you test by disabling file lock ? It's written in the doc, but I also noted it as need to do this on every update...

You have to edit /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice and comment the two last lines :

Code:

# file locking now enabled by default
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING

Aan Triono · Apr 14, 2024

arachnid said:
do you have installed package for font iosevka? if yes, then try to remove this package

Yes. I did use the iosevka font package.

Aan Triono · Apr 14, 2024

Perceval said:
Do you have a Read-Only error or a lock file somewhere ?
I did have the same problem while opening network based files (on doc/docx files if I remember), latest LibreOffice updates solved it BUT now files are locked by default if there's a lock file present.
Can you test by disabling file lock ? It's written in the doc, but I also noted it as need to do this on every update...

You have to edit /usr/local/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice and comment the two last lines :

Code:

# file locking now enabled by default SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1 export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING

I haven't found this command line yet, /usr/local/libreoffice/program/soffice

Tieks · Apr 14, 2024

Aan Triono said:
I haven't found this command line yet, /usr/local/libreoffice

This doesn't exist. Try looking in /usr/local/lib first.

arachnid · Apr 15, 2024

Aan Triono said:
Yes. I did use the iosevka font package.

and what after remove?
some links about this bug

275218 – editors/libreoffice: very slow startup times in presence of iosevka font

bugs.freebsd.org

Gentoo Forums :: View topic - Iosevka font and LibreOffice load times

158287 – Slow startup in presence of iosevka font (FreeBSD & Gentoo)

bugs.documentfoundation.org

I used this font for a long time myself, but waiting 10 minutes for each lo start is too long. deleting it worked for me