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[Simon Liebold <579966@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 745836 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/745836

Ootman, the encrypted $home is totally the problem. That is very
obvious. I am not sure Bug #745836 is related. This bug report is much
closer to the root cause.

Recently I installed 11.04 from scratch w/ encrypted $home and the
crashes came again as I was used to it.

That fixed it for me (same recipe as Phil somewhere up there):

Create a directory that is not encrypted. For example, I have

/home/simon (encrypted) 
/home/simon_otherme (not encrypted)

Chown the dir to give it the same ownership as your primary main user.
That way you can access your files as usual.

Then start libreoffice by

simon@simpad:~$ export HOME=/home/simon_otherme
simon@simpad:/home/simon$ libreoffice

No more crashes since. I can keep LO running for hours, suspend my
computer with Libreoffice running, wake it up, open additional files and
it does not crash any more.

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Title:
  LibreOffice/OpenOffice crash with high frequency with $HOME on
  ecryptfs

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: openoffice.org

  OpenOffice will crash at least once for every two hours of use.  The
  chance of a crash is increased by, but NOT exclusively caused by,
  memory-intensive operations such as copy-pastes or saves of large
  amounts of info (ex. 10,000 lines in a spreadsheet).

  After the crash, sometimes OpenOffice will work normally when you try
  to start it again.

  Other times an soffice.bin process will appear in the process list and
  stay there, but nothing visual will appear.  Only by forcibly killing
  that process and then trying AGAIN to start OpenOffice, can you get it
  to work again.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: openoffice.org (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu May 13 14:30:04 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: openoffice.org

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