[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 119601] New: When writer is not installed, LibreOffice tries document recovery on good documents

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119601

            Bug ID: 119601
           Summary: When writer is not installed, LibreOffice tries
                    document recovery on good documents
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.0.3.2 release
          Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
                OS: Linux (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: minor
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: marco at hulten.org

Description:
On Ubuntu 18.04, I installed 'libreoffice-impress', which installed the
'libreoffice' binary among other things.  If I then open some document, say

    $ libreoffice document.docx

, it starts to try to recover the document.  This fails and LibreOffice exits
(with exit code 0).  After confusion, I find out that libreoffice-writer is not
installed, so I install that package, and the document can be opened without
problems.

(In the case of an ODT file, or a plain-text file, the Document Recovery dialog
is also opened, but it does not try to recover the file that you try to open. 
LibreOffice is running without any documents yet opened.)

Instead of trying to open/recover a document that cannot be opened (because the
right LibreOffice component is not installed), it would be better if the header
of the file is interpreted and a proper error message is displayed, e.g.

    Cannot open document.docx, because the writer component is missing.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a LibreOffice component, but not writer;
2. try to open a text document with the command 'libreoffice'.

Actual Results:
Document Recovery is started.  Recovery fails.

Expected Results:
An informative error message should be thrown.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
$ libreoffice --version
LibreOffice 6.0.3.2 00m0(Build:2)

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