Attempting to save a file causes openoffice to crash - writer and calc

[JohnL]

Create a new file (in Writer or Calc), type a few words and click save (either menu or toolbar).
Save dialog opens with Directory /home/username/Documents selected as default.
Enter file name and click Save button. OpenOffice closes and crash report dialog opens.

The fault appears to be the default "Documents" directory which has permissions 700. If you change the save directory say to /home/username or /home/username/some_new_directory_I_just_created (with permissions 755) save operation works fine.

Changing permissions of the Documents directory to 755 does not prevent OpenOffice crashing!!

Anyway - its a bug.
Openoffice crashing disgracefully instead of displaying a "you don't have permission dialog" may be for Openoffice.

Getting default settings right so that the whole Ubuntu / Openoffice thing works "out of the box" is presumably yours.

JohnL
Install ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[Thomas Folz-Donahue (eigenlambda)]

it seems to be an openoffice bug, not firefox

[JohnL (cbarter)]

Correct - but launchpad wouldn't accept "openoffice" or "I don't know" and applied "Firefox" all by itself!

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

- please recheck with 2.0.3 from dapper-proposed
- not reproducible in edgy

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

no further information was provided; rejecting the report. please reopen if you can reproduce it with OOo 2.2.0 in feisty.