Comment 5 for bug 857638

Created attachment 48543
Error message recieved upon crash

Some documents crash upon saving or closing in LibO Writer 3.4 in Ubuntu 11.4.

This happens in Ubuntu 11.04. It doen‘t happen in Windows 7 and not in Debian stable. The documents must be of some complexity. Newly created docs work as expected, but some, but not all, papers I have been working on for a while crashes.

I guess that there is something in some of my docs that doesn‘t work properly in LibO 3.4. I have not been able to pinpoint what it is. I have made a test document (2 pages) with the error present out of a much bigger document. If I shorten the document further or insert dummy text instead of real text the document does not crash.

I am reluctant to post even a small part of my document publicly. If I change to dummy text the error is gone so its the real thing. Perhaps I could mail the file to someone for further analysis?

How to recreate:
Open the document in LibO 3.4 on Ubuntu 11.04
Close the document
Writer crashes
When Writer is restarted you are prompted to recreate the document

The document works fine in LibO 3.3 (and earlier versions of OOo).

I get error reports in my home folder every time LibO crashes. I post one of them. It says something about Java. I have tested LibO 3.4 with SUN Java and Open JDK. The document crashes with either.

I have also tested with LibO 3.4.1 RC3 and the documents still crash.

This is a serious bug since data is lost upon crash, especially if you are working on several documents, since all open documents crash without saving.