On Tue November 11 2025 13:38:15 dep via tde-users wrote:
said Mike Bird via tde-users: | My wife is still on 14.1.5 and now has a Libreoffice document that she | cannot close. She can edit the document but close does nothing from | the File menu, from the Libreoffice X near the top right corner, | from the TDE X at the top right corner, or from the right click menu | on the task bar.
Can she save the document?
might run top from a command prompt and see what libreoffice is up to. (It will appear as soffice.bin.) Then -- if she can save the document, which can be confirmed by looking at it in a file manager -- do a killall soffice.bin and see if it closes that way. Which I suspect it will.
Then restart and see if the problem persists. Often with LibreOffice things can get screwy because of some character inserted in a document -- for instance, I pasted a kanji character in a word processing document and it reformatted everything thereafter, and it took a while to figure out that because of that one character LibreOffice thought the whole thing thereafter was supposed to be formatted as if in Japanese.
There was nothing important in the document so I had deleted all the content and attempts to close either the document or the application still had no effect.
top varies slightly around 0.1% user, 0.1% system, 99.8% idle. I did not see any activity in soffice.bin. There was occasional very light activity in kernel threads, tdepowersave, notification-daemon-tde, kdesktop_lock, init, sshd-session, etc - nothing unusual.
The empty document saved ok. I copied it to my laptop, fixed perms, opened it in LibreOffice, and it behaved normally and allowed me to close it.
Sending HUP to the soffice.bin process had no effect. Sending TERM killed it.
Thanks for the suggestions. The laptop is now rebooted, still in 14.1.5.
--Mike