Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 58916
OpenOffice.org crashes at opening a certain file
Last modified: 2005-12-08 09:44:05 UTC
Shortly after (1 or 2 seconds) opening the attached files, OpenOffice.org crashes. Very reproducible for me, even after reboots. The file (a presentation about All The Evil In The World) was made with this same version of OOo, having 1 image per slide. At some point, OOo decided to crash, whether the images were or weren't there. It's a bad thing, because there's no way to repair the file... I think this is enough info; just try opening the file and I hope it crashes too, on your side... The exact version of OpenOffice.org I use is the one shipped with Ubuntu 5.10, namely openoffice.org2-core 1.9.129-0.1ubuntu4. I think that's OOo 2.0.
Created attachment 32086 [details] The file triggering the crash. Just open it and you'll see...
Priority changed. Sorry, no crash. Did you sent a crash report? How can I find it ? (used email adress for example). Maybe the problem is that all the bitmaps are linked and not included. Thanks in advance.
This happens: 1) I open the file 2) The file loads 3) It crashes and asks if it needs to restart 4) I choose to restart it 5) The error recovery box is there. This error recovery box contains a list of files needing recovery, a text at the top which tells me to click "Next" if I want to report the bug, and two buttons: "Start recovery >" and "Cancel". No next button, thus no way to report errors (this too might be considered a bug). Do I need to install a different version? Or additional packages? The closest that I found was openoffice.org2-dev: "This package contains the files needed to build plugins/add-ons for OpenOffice.org (includes, IDL files, build tools, ...)" the description doesn't say anything about bug reporting, so I guess this isn't the one either. Any ideas on how I can report crashes? Need more info?
It doesn't crash for me either (Linux/2.0.1RC1), but I also don't get the images. I think 1.9.129 sounds like one of the late betas before 2.0; you may get some more version information via Help->About, Cntrl-s,Cntrl-d,Cntrl-t. Odd that the crash dialog isn't working: for my crashes, the "Start Recovery" button shows before the documents are recovered, along with text at the top talking about recovery, then the text at the top changes to talk about reporting the bug, with the "Next" and "Cancel" buttons. Clicking "Next" gives some general error reporting info, "Next" again gives a dialog asking about what you were doing, email address etc. Hit "Show Report" here to show a backtrace. You can copy and paste the backtrace into a file and attach that file to this report.
Build id 8968 (also visible in the about box) was the final 2.0. The source of the code might be a problem here. Please try to download the original installatin files from the OOo webpage and have a look if the crash is reproducible there, too. there could be some trouble with the ubuntu builds.
It was indeed the Ubuntu build which was outdated... (88something) The _real_ OOo doesn't crash on this one... thanks for all your help :)
Thanks for the info.