Bug#895440: Unable to connect to libreoffice

[tony mancill]

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 02:14:04AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + confirmed
> 
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 18:00:28 +0200, Gary Porter wrote:
> 
> > Experiencing the same problem in Buster with a vanilla installation, but probably with a different cause.
> > 
> > Using jabref 3.8.2+ds-12, jabref is unable to connect to libreoffice automatically or manually.
> 
> I can reproduce this issue (on unstable). If I try to connect
> manually (with the default values for the LO executable and libs), I
> get an error message saying:
> 
> "File not found: /usr/lib/libreoffice/program/classes/program/classes/unoil.jar"
> 
> If I try to connect manually again but change the lib path from
> /usr/lib/libreoffice/programm/classes to /usr/lib/libreoffice/ I
> don't get an error window from JabRef but it still fails with a java
> backtrace like yours:
> 
> 02:11:07.355 [AWT-EventQueue-0] ERROR net.sf.jabref.FallbackExceptionHandler - Uncaught exception Occurred in Thread[AWT-EventQueue-0,6,main]
> java.lang.ClassCastException: class jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader cannot be cast to class java.net.URLClassLoader (jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader and java.net.URLClassLoader are in module java.base of loader 'bootstrap')
> 	at net.sf.jabref.gui.openoffice.OpenOfficePanel.addURL(OpenOfficePanel.java:484) ~[JabRef-3.8.2.jar:?]
> 
> <snip>
>
> So yeah. there is an issue; and this has worked the last time I tried
> it … Maybe some change in OpenJDK? -- This needs further
> investigation.

Thank you both for reporting and confirming the issue.  I will take a
look this weekend.

Cheers,
tony
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