Turns out that I'm still able to reproduce the bug. However, I'm not able to get a core dump (or crash report) from the application. Just running OOo causes the internal SIGSEGV/SIGABRT handler to be called, which obviously prevents the application from dumping its core (which would cause the kernel to call apport). Calling OOo with the -norestore option seems to disable this behavior, but for some reason it still doesn't dump its core. Manually producing a core dump using GDB and feeding it into apport doesn't work either since apport apparently couldn't retrieve the assertion error message(?). I'm willing to research the issue further (although I have limited time to spare at the moment), but _please_ research issues better before coming up with further useless instructions. I've included the stack trace from GDB, it should help. I'm starting to believe that this is really a GTK bug. I still get the same assertion: Gtk:ERROR:/build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkfilesystemmodel.c:746:gtk_file_system_model_sort: assertion failed: (r == n_visible_rows) GDB produces the following: #0 0x00007ffff6c73a75 in *__GI_raise (sig=) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64 #1 0x00007ffff6c775c0 in *__GI_abort () at abort.c:92 #2 0x00007fffed04fbb4 in g_assertion_message () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0x00007fffed050130 in g_assertion_message_expr () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #4 0x00007fffee363846 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00007fffee364ae8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00007fffeb081ec8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0 #7 0x00007fffed0298c2 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #8 0x00007fffed02d748 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x00007fffed02dc55 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #10 0x00007fffee32d52b in gtk_dialog_run () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #11 0x00007fffd21d3e50 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/fps_gnome.uno.so #12 0x00007fffd21dbca8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/fps_gnome.uno.so #13 0x00007ffff563dee0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #14 0x00007ffff563e0ea in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #15 0x00007ffff5643afc in ?? () ---Type to continue, or q to quit--- from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #16 0x00007ffff541b631 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #17 0x00007ffff55e7054 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #18 0x00007ffff55de97b in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #19 0x00007ffff55e287e in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #20 0x00007ffff55e2769 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #21 0x00007ffff561825a in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsfxlx.so #22 0x00007ffff3833f38 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libvcllx.so #23 0x00007fffecda42b8 in SalDisplay::DispatchInternalEvent() () from /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/libvclplug_genlx.so #24 0x00007fffee8a74c0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/libvclplug_gtklx.so #25 0x00007fffed0298c2 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #26 0x00007fffed02d748 in ?? () from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #27 0x00007fffed02d8fc in g_main_context_iteration () ---Type to continue, or q to quit--- from /lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #28 0x00007fffee8a762d in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/libvclplug_gtklx.so #29 0x00007ffff3652cae in Application::Yield(bool) () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libvcllx.so #30 0x00007ffff3652d27 in Application::Execute() () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libvcllx.so #31 0x00007ffff779c27f in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsofficeapp.so #32 0x00007ffff3657d99 in ?? () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libvcllx.so #33 0x00007ffff3657e85 in SVMain() () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libvcllx.so #34 0x00007ffff77d003c in soffice_main () from /usr/lib/openoffice/program/../basis-link/program/libsofficeapp.so #35 0x00000000004010bb in main ()