So I was able to reproduce on a freshly installed Ubuntu Trusty, It seems whoopsie on said machine has trouble uploading the crash data, so re-attaching the .crash file here.
** Attachment added: ".crash file from apport" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1319941/+attachment/4129576/+files/_usr_lib_libreoffice_program_soffice.bin.1000.crash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319941 Title: libreoffice draw / impress crash if user service publishing is disabled in avahi Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Both loimpress and lodraw fail to start with an error message related to avahi: $ loimpress avahi_entry_group_new() failed: Not permitted soffice.bin: client.c:626: avahi_client_free: Assertion `client' failed. $ ps ax | grep avahi 7617 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --color=auto avahi 21356 ? S 0:07 avahi-daemon: running [hostname.local] 21380 ? S 0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper This is the backtrace of the crash: $ cat gdbtrace.log warning: Currently logging to gdbtrace.log. Turn the logging off and on to make the new setting effective. warning: Unable to find libthread_db matching inferior's thread library, thread debugging will not be available. Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00007ffff41f2f79 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56 56 ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory. #0 0x00007ffff41f2f79 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56 #1 0x00007ffff41f6388 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89 #2 0x00007ffff41ebe36 in __assert_fail_base (fmt=0x7ffff433d718 "%s%s%s:%u: %s%sAssertion `%s' failed.\n%n", assertion=assertion@entry=0x7fffe95b6919 "client", file=file@entry=0x7fffe95b6910 "client.c", line=line@entry=626, function=function@entry=0x7fffe95b6fe0 "avahi_client_free") at assert.c:92 #3 0x00007ffff41ebee2 in __GI___assert_fail (assertion=0x7fffe95b6919 "client", file=0x7fffe95b6910 "client.c", line=626, function=0x7fffe95b6fe0 "avahi_client_free") at assert.c:101 #4 0x00007fffe95af06b in avahi_client_free () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3 #5 0x00007fffbac7c40c in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #6 0x00007fffbac7c678 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #7 0x00007fffe95aec2c in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3 #8 0x00007fffe95af3aa in avahi_client_new () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libavahi-client.so.3 #9 0x00007fffbac7c8a5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #10 0x00007fffbac7d195 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #11 0x00007fffbac7d30b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #12 0x00007fffbac74756 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #13 0x00007fffbaa12b9b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so #14 0x00007fffbab83bc0 in sd_component_getFactory () from /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/../program/libsdlo.so This is on trusty. libreoffice-impress 1:4.2.3~rc3-0ubuntu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1319941/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp