[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 125656] LibreOffice Writer crash at start after update from 6.2.3.2 to 6.2.4.2

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125656

--- Comment #7 from Alex Thurgood <iplaw67 at tuta.io> ---
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #5)
> Then we should change that policy. Firefox does have checks to upgrade and
> clean up its user profile on upgrading versions, whenever necessary. Why
> can’t we do the same? Why do we have to pretend our profile doesn’t often
> get corrupted, and when it happens it’s never our fault? This really annoys
> me.

1) I agree wholeheartedly with this.

2) This is not as uncommon as Xisco claims.

3) It simply shouldn't happen. Especially not between point releases (one might
discuss whether it is allowable between major version releases, but even there,
I would argue for it not to be allowable).

This happened to me recently when a mysql connector extension in my profile
conflicted with the newly integrated built-in mysql connector, causing LO to
crash on startup.

I had to manually experiment with each extension to try and find out which one
was causing the problem, losing all of my previous settings in the process
until I had isolated the problematic one and purged it.

We shouldn't be expecting users to deal with this.

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