LibreOffice printing empty page, empty pdf export

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Hello,
I'm having trouble getting LibreOffice to print or export any document. Bullet points, graphics and pictures appear correctly, but there's simply no text at all. I tried both LibreOffice flavours and safe mode (which, according to google seems to be the general solution to this issue), nothing works. If I start Writer via shell, there's no error output at all. Any ideas about this?

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System:
  Kernel: 5.12.14-hardened1-1-hardened-cacule x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 11.1.0 parameters: pti=on page_alloc.shuffle=1
    BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-hardened-cacule
    root=UUID=76975dcf-98db-4177-8706-cced970f0dd1 rw [email protected]
    ipv6.disable=1 quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3
    vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
    resume=UUID=b62d11c9-77f6-468c-a267-95206ded8395 loglevel=3
    ipv6.disable=1
  Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.29 info: xfce4-panel wm: bspwm 0.9.10
    vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: B550 AORUS PRO V2
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: F14e
    date: 10/14/2021
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3
    family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x21 (33) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA201016
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 8 tpc: 2 threads: 16 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 512 KiB desc: d-8x32 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 4 MiB desc: 8x512 KiB
    L3: 32 MiB desc: 1x32 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 3690 high: 4305 min/max: 2200/5084 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 4305 2: 3593
    3: 4030 4: 3782 5: 3590 6: 3592 7: 3590 8: 3592 9: 3596 10: 3592 11: 3588
    12: 3584 13: 3592 14: 3591 15: 3596 16: 3840 bogomips: 121415
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass
    mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
    mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full AMD retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
    IBRS_FW, STIBP: always-on, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: ZOTAC
    driver: nvidia v: 495.46 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 07:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2504 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Logitech StreamCam type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1:2
    chip-ID: 046d:0893 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.3 compositor: picom v: git-c4107
    driver: loaded: nvidia unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x572mm (40.0x22.5")
    s-diag: 1166mm (45.9")
  Monitor-1: DP-0 res: 3840x2160 hz: 60 dpi: 140
    size: 697x392mm (27.4x15.4") diag: 800mm (31.5")
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ZOTAC driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 09:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-3: RODE Microphones RØDE NT-USB Mini type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-6.3:9 chip-ID: 19f7:0015
    class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Device-4: Logitech StreamCam type: USB
    driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid,uvcvideo bus-ID: 2-1:2
    chip-ID: 046d:0893 class-ID: 0300 serial: <filter>
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.12.14-hardened1-1-hardened-cacule running: yes
  Sound Server-2: sndio v: N/A running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.43 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
    port: e000 bus-ID: 06:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8125 class-ID: 0200
  IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
RAID:
  Device-1: sink type: zfs status: ONLINE level: raidz1 raw: size: 49.1 TiB
    free: 37.7 TiB allocated: 11.4 TiB zfs-fs: size: 32.58 TiB free: 24.98 TiB
  Components: Online:
  1: sda maj-min: 8:0 size: 16.37 TiB
  2: sdb maj-min: 8:16 size: 16.37 TiB
  3: sdc maj-min: 8:32 size: 16.37 TiB
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: raw: 50.96 TiB usable: 34.43 TiB
    used: 7.67 TiB (22.3%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Corsair
    model: Corsair MP600 PRO XT size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: EIFM31.2 temp: 33.9 C scheme: GPT
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MG09ACA18TE
    size: 16.37 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0104 scheme: GPT
  ID-3: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Toshiba model: MG09ACA18TE
    size: 16.37 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0104 scheme: GPT
  ID-4: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Toshiba model: MG09ACA18TE
    size: 16.37 TiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s
    type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter> rev: 0104 scheme: GPT
  ID-5: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: Samsung model: Flash Drive
    size: 29.88 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD
    serial: <filter> rev: 1100 scheme: MBR
  SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 1.75 TiB size: 1.75 TiB (100.00%) used: 75.26 GiB (4.2%)
    fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
    used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
  ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.75 TiB size: 1.75 TiB (100.00%)
    used: 75.26 GiB (4.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 1.75 TiB size: 1.75 TiB (100.00%)
    used: 75.26 GiB (4.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
  ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 1.75 TiB size: 1.75 TiB (100.00%)
    used: 75.26 GiB (4.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 1 (default 60) cache-pressure: 50 (default 100)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 62.78 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
    dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 69.09 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 43.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A gpu: nvidia fan: 0%
Info:
  Processes: 467 Uptime: 2h 58m wakeups: 0 Memory: 62.78 GiB
  used: 5.9 GiB (9.4%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
  gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1754 pacman: 1745 lib: 389 flatpak: 9 Shell: Bash
  v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.12
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First of all, your kernel is outdated as well as not the default one. So, I would recommend fully updating your desktop and try again.

And btw, it is working fine here, I created a random file in Libreoffice from scratch, and it printed fine using ctrl + p to a pdf file.
I installed it from Garuda setup assistant, so that might be worth taking a look at.

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So turns out you've been right about this. Changed kernels and suddenly it's working as expected. I want to understand why using a hardened kernel would lead to this issue, can someone explain please?

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This should be asked or reported to the linux-hardened GitHub. It could be a bug, like a side effect of a security hardening or simply something wanted. How knows besides them?

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