Openoffice impress crash starting slideshow

[ianb1469]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

OO Impress frequently crashes when starting a slideshow with F5.

It consistently crashes if you press F5 immediately after saving a file, but tends not to crash if you navigate to a few different pages after saving then press F5. It also crashes with a new (unsaved) document with a few characters.

To replicate:

1. Start openoffice impress with a blank slideshow
2. Select a layout with text boxes
3. Type a few characters in a text box
4. Press F5
Immediately the crash/document recovery window occurs.

Alternative way to replicate
1. Open an existing presentation
2. make an edit to it
3. Save it
4. F5
Immediately the crash/document recovery window occurs.

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

apt-cache policy openoffice.org
openoffice.org:
  Installed: 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
  Candidate: 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

This is on a Dell XPS M1330 laptop, with NVIDIA graphics card and driver. This behaviour existed in previous ubuntu distribution as well as 10.04.

Bug 571499 may also be relevant.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri May 21 20:34:08 2010
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I can't reproduce this problem can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?

[ianb1469 (ian-broster)]

The attached file is enough to trigger the bug on this machine.

To replicate:
1. Open the file
2. Click on the text in the slide and add a character (but do not do any other navigation)
3. CTRL-S
4. F5

I suspect that it's something to do with this machine/hardware. Is there anything I can do to send a better debug report/backtrace?

Thanks.
i.

[ianb1469 (ian-broster)]

Is this gdb backtrace any use?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

It doesn't crash for me.

Does moving/removing the ~/.openoffice.org* directories help resolve the problem? Also you don't see any other application crashing regularly do you?

[ianb1469 (ian-broster)]

Removing the ~/.openoffice.org* directories didn't help.

No other application crashes regularly, including other full-screen programs.

The odd thing with this crash is that if you save, then navigate to a different slide, then F5, you don't get a crash.

[Patrick (patrick-voegeli)]

Same here.. it's not always, but it crashes very frequently when doing F5

[Jack Leigh (leighman)]

I can't reproduce the crash here in LibreOffice 3.3 either.
It looks like you didn't have debugging symbols installed for that backtrace, sadly.
Any chance you could try installing libreoffice from https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ppa and installing libreoffice-dbg then reproducing the backtrace above?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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