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EDIT II: Writer crashes LO. Calc and Impress work fine, no issues. This begun after a botched upgrade. I have tried: uninstalling and installing writer again, reinstalling LO from scratch. Nothing works. Starting LO from the terminal doesn't produce any error msg.

Here are the details of the internal error box from Ubuntu

Ubuntu internal error msg

Any ideas how I can solve it? Will upgrading to 17.04 do?

EDIT: Following the instructions of another use, I opened LibreOffice from the terminal. It crashes when either attempting to create a new document or opening an old one, but there's no error msg. in the terminal.

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No, it doesn't appear as if upgrading to 17.04 will solve your issue as the problem has been reported with 17.04 as well (at least the 32-bit release anyway). There are several approaches you could take to solve this problem.

One approach would be to purge the PPA as suggested by David Foerster here and installing the version from the repositories as mentioned in my comment here.

Another approach would be to simply Go to LibreOffice->Tools->Options-> Advanced and untick the box under Java options shown here:

UseJRE

There is also a kernel based workaround that is reported to work with both 16.04 and 17.04 related to these bug reports (1, 2.)

This workaround is to add the kernel option stack_guard_gap=1 to your boot parameters. Instructions on how to add a boot parameter are found here.

Sources:

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/120488/libreoffice-writer-will-not-launch/

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/120447/libreoffice-base-crashes-on-32bit-linux/

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1699772

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108619

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/102036/writer-crashes/

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