Open office splash binary lockup

[Mikael Gerdin]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

System: Kubuntu Hardy 8.04 amd64, updated 2008-02-15.
I discovered that if I try to start two openoffice applications at the same time, like this:
$ oowriter & oocalc &
either from a terminal or by opening OO documents, then the program drawing the splash screen locks up and eats cpu resources and makes Xorg eat cpu resources.
I attached to the oosplash.bin-process with strace and it seems like it's stuck in some sort of blocked IO-loop:
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLHUP}], 1, 50) = 1
read(6, "", 255) = 0
select(8, [7], [7], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [7])
writev(7, [{"8\2\4\0\2\0@\4\4\0\0\0\323\323\323\0C\0\5\0\1\0@\4\2\0"..., 72}], 1) = 72
read(7, 0x60d5b4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(7, 0x60d5b4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLHUP}], 1, 50) = 1
read(6, "", 255) = 0
select(8, [7], [7], NULL, NULL) = 1 (out [7])
writev(7, [{"8\2\4\0\2\0@\4\4\0\0\0\323\323\323\0C\0\5\0\1\0@\4\2\0"..., 72}], 1) = 72
read(7, 0x60d5b4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
read(7, 0x60d5b4, 4096) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
poll([{fd=6, events=POLLIN, revents=POLLHUP}], 1, 50) = 1

I checked the FD:s and found that 6 was a pipe and 7 was a socket.

[Martin Gustafsson (martin-gustafsson)]

I can confirm this with Kubuntu Hardy I think. The funny thing is that I have noticed that the cpu fan is always making a lot noise when my girlfriend uses the computer. After some investigation I found out that Xorg and a OOo process eats 100% of the cpu when she is using the computer. The splash to OOo is always there in the background too. Killing the splash-process solves the problem. I have spent some time trying to reproduce the bug my self but without success. Maybe she double-clicks on the document icons and starts too many instances of OOo at the same time giving the same scenario as Mikael Gerdin reported?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

This bug appears to be fixed in Ubuntu hardy OpenOffice.org 1:2.4.0~rc2-1ubuntu3. If you still have problems with this issue then please reopen the bug. I was able to reproduce this in the past with the older version of openoffice, but not with the new one in hardy now.

Thanks,

Chris Cheney