[upstream] [hardy] OOo crashes accessing Recently Used or Search in gnome open dialog

[Paul Smith]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org2

I don't know if this is the right package: I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) which has this version of OO.o:

ii openoffice.org 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-base 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-base-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-calc 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-draw 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-evolution 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-filter-binfilter 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-gnome 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-gtk 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-help-en-gb 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-help-en-us 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-hyphenation 0.3
ii openoffice.org-impress 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-l10n-common 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-l10n-en-za 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-math 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-officebean 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-style-andromeda 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-style-human 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-style-industrial 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-au 2.1-3ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us 1:2.4.0~m240-1ubuntu1
ii openoffice.org-writer 1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6
ii openoffice.org-writer2latex 0.5-6

I can trivially cause Impress (at least; haven't tried other components) to crash as follows: choose an image from FireFox (I used a JPEG but I don't know that it matters) and save it to your desktop (or edit one with Gimp or something: basically make sure it shows up in the Gnome "Recently Used" list).

Start Impress, then select Insert -> Picture -> From file...

When you get the Gnome dialog, choose the "Recently Used" filter. Pick the image you just saved/edited/whatever. Click OK.

Crash. No apport runs; is OO.o not integrated with apport?

Stacktrace (not very useful since I don't have debug symbols); I got this by starting ooimpress, then connecting to it with GDB and causing the crash:

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0xb4f9f720 (LWP 22215)]
0xb667b283 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb667b283 in strlen () from /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6
#1 0xac98d422 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/fps_gnome.uno.so
#2 0xac98dd88 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/fps_gnome.uno.so
#3 0xac98e009 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/fps_gnome.uno.so
#4 0xb6d5a830 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#5 0xb6d67afa in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#6 0xb6d6a167 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#7 0xb6d6a20e in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#8 0xb2056e00 in SvxOpenGraphicDialog::Execute ()
   from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsvx680li.so
#9 0xaf3c3265 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so
#10 0xaf3c2fa5 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so
#11 0xaf0f48eb in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so
#12 0xaf0dea9a in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so
#13 0xaf112254 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsd680li.so
#14 0xb6cf3941 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#15 0xb6cf40c8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#16 0xb6d26926 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#17 0x08628748 in ?? ()
#18 0x0939f1b0 in ?? ()
#19 0xbf971138 in ?? ()
#20 0xb6d268c9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libsfx680li.so
#21 0x088382d0 in ?? ()
#22 0x0939f1b0 in ?? ()
#23 0xbf971138 in ?? ()
#24 0xb7dd99c8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libvcl680li.so
Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)

[Paul Smith (psmith-gnu)]

I should point out that if you select the same image using the normal file chooser method (not "Recently Used") it works fine.

[Leif Arne Storset (lastorset)]

I believe I get the same defect in Writer when I try to Edit > Compare Document... with a Recently Used file.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Confirmed on upstream's openoffice.org 2.4.0

[alfred_nutile (alfred-rivervalleytechcollective)]

Same here
Menu -> Insert -> Picture -> From File
Nautilus window opens up.
Then I click Recently Used
Even if at this point I click Cancel it still crashes.
This is a clean Hardy Heron install w/ OpenOffice that comes with it.

[Odin Hørthe Omdal (velmont)]

This still exists in Intrepid!

Why is the fix not committed? You should really do this as a hotfix. My boss use Recently Used all the time, and might want to change back to Windows because of the crashiness.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

It is corrected in the ppa for Intrepid (3.0.1) and in Jaunty.

[Odin Hørthe Omdal (velmont)]

*Chris*: But won't that introduce a whole slew of other bugs? Or is 3.0 really stable? My boss just lost a document because the machine was turned off, and then when starting again the recover feature wiped out the document. I'd like less of that, and a more stable experience so I don't get worried calls all the time :-)

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Perhaps, many bugs were fixed with 3.0 but there may new ones, but I was primarily stating that this has been fixed where it is fixable. It won't be fixed in Intrepid directly since it is not a security issue, and there is not enough manpower to backport a fix for every issue in OpenOffice (there are lots of them found every day).