Ubuntu – “General Error. General input/output error” when opening documents with Libreoffice

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I'm running LibreOffice 4.2.5.2 on Ubuntu 14.04. Trying to open any document (at first only with large ones, but now all of them) returns either of the messages below:

General Error. General input/output error opening documents with Libreoffice

Locked for editing by Unknown User

The file is corrupt, should LibreOffice repair it?

LibreOffice 4.1.6, which came with the distribution upgrade, had the same bug.
Deleting the lock files (which I tried) does not fix it.

Sending the "corrupt" files to my email, I can preview their contents without problems.
I use LibreOffice only on Linux.

Best Answer

This fixed the "General Error. General input/output error" problem for me after upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS:

sudo apt install libreoffice

It seems like only a few of the LibreOffice packages were installed on the system after the upgrade. The above command installed some more of the packages.

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Ubuntu – Can’t open any Libre Office docs in 12.04

I have the same problem. Run command as it explained above and i got this error message:

krator@laptop:~/Documents$ libreoffice --writer myFile.odt 
[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed! 
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'
krator@laptop:~/Documents$

Any fix for this issue?

Ok, I found the answer to this issue. Here is solution:

Fixing Java Framework Error

You may get the following error when you try to run OpenOffice.

[Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).
javaldx failed!

If so, give yourself ownership of ~/.config/ like so:

sudo chown -vR username:users ~/.config

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Ubuntu – Can’t open any Libre Office docs in 12.04

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