FC18 - Libreoffice keeps crashing

[Tim]

Allegedly, on or about 25 September 2013, Paul Erickson sent:
> I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling without success.

This isn't Windows, it's highly unlikely that any system or application
files have disappeared thanks to some other application being installed,
nor due to filing system or operating system foul-ups.  So re-installing
rarely makes any difference.  If the application is faulty, putting it
back on will be the same (though putting an older version back on, if
that's possible, which it mayn't, that might help in the short run).  If
the application was fine, putting it back on will be the same.  

It tends to only be things like hardware faults that cause random
screwups, and if they're the cause of an install failing, or a failing
hard drive losing some data, they're the fault that actually needs
fixing, as it will re-occur, and re-installing doesn't fix those types
of faults.  So, you check the cooling fans are working, you check that
all the plug-in boards are firmly in place (if you've moved a PC about,
things do shift internally unless you have a very heavy rigid case, so
pull them completely out, then plug them back in), you do memory tests
(e.g. memtest86), you check the hard drive for errors (e.g. SMART).

If there was something wrong with your personal configuration files,
they're completely independent from installs and uninstalls.  You need
to deal with them separately (move them somewhere else, rename them,
delete them).  Another poster has covered how to do that.

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