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Oddity when loading libreoffice onboot (core 16.2, x86_64)

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Leee:
Thanks Rich and patrickg.  I'm working through all of these suggestions but I have some IRL things going on so it might take a couple more days.

Leee:
Thanks to all for your help and suggestions.  This problem is solved - mostly.

The suggestion to use tce-audit surprised me by retrieving several extensions - even though the install was fresh (a couple of days old at most) including downloading all dependencies of the extensions listed in onboot.lst.  I probably should have been more concerned about that than I initially was.

The suggestion to use the showapps bootcode proved to be key.  It showed me that one extension, gst-plugins-bad.tcz (a deep dep of libreoffice.tcz), wasn't loading.  But instead of simply checking that extension's md5sum I checked every .md5.txt file in my local store, en masse.  No checksum errors detected so clearly not a bad extension.   WRONG.  After much spinning of wheels I decided to just download a fresh copy of the (seemingly) offending extension and see if it matched the existing copy and/or the existing .md5sum.txt file.  But not only was the faulty .tcz file incomplete but its .md5.txt file had never been downloaded either.  This meant that A) the md5sum test never took place and B) tce-audit and/or tce-update probably pretty much ignored it.

So I did download a fresh copy of gst-plugins-bad.tcz and its md5.txt and dep files and the listed dependencies and now libreoffice.tcz loads on the first try.

The only remaining issue is, "Why the heck did it previously work when I loaded it twice?"  I think I can envision a path where that might have worked - perhaps if gst-plugins-bad.tcz itself wasn't a hard dependency but one of -its- dependencies -was- ....  I don't have enough brain cells still functioning to follow that through the whole way right now.

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