[dapper] oo impress crash after slide with many images duplicated

[Stefan Kluth]

In oo impress we created a slide with 9 digital camera images imported as links via "import graphics". We use this as a flexible way to print out digital photos.

Duplicating this slide makes oo impress crash after 10 to 15 seconds or so. Duplication can be done in several ways, i.e "duplicate slide" menu item, copy+paste in slide sorter view, copy+paste of all images from the first to an empty second slide, but oo impress keels over as described above in all cases.

I can provide the sample file on request, since it contains private photographs I hesitate to put it in a public location.

The file containing the slide with its duplicate is basically lost, because oo impress will crash again after restart after it has "recovered" the file. I had to open the offending file in oo impress 1.1.3 (debian sarge) and delete the second slide in order to make the file available again on our dapper system. So perhaps this counts as a "critical data loss bug".

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please recheck with 2.0.4-0ubuntu2 (edgy); a similiar crash is fixed; if it's not fixed, please attach the document if possible

[Stefan Kluth (skluth)]

Dear Matthias,

is it sufficient to install ooffice from edgy into dapper, backport style?
I mean setting up /etc/apt/preferences with Pin-Priority: 200 for edgy,
including edgy in sources.list and doing apt-get -t edgy install
openoffice.org. I could probably also put Default-Release "stable"; in
apt.conf instead of setting up /etc/apt/preferences.

Will ubuntu consider to upgrade ooffice in dapper to the edgy version due
to these bugs (if the edgy version fixes them)? Otherwise I would not
really see the point in making tests as I would have to go to edgy anyway
to fix my problem, or be on my own with edgy-ooffice in dapper.

Cheers, Stefan

On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Matthias Klose wrote:

> please recheck with 2.0.4-0ubuntu2 (edgy); a similiar crash is fixed; if
> it's not fixed, please attach the document if possible
>
> ** Changed in: openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
> Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
>
> --
> [dapper] oo impress crash after slide with many images duplicated
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/61664
>

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[Matthias Klose (doko)]

no, if you do not want to upgrade your system, a test with a live CD (daily build) would be appreciated. Please check with the final 2.2.0 version from feisty.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and feel free to submit bug reports in the future.