LibreOffice Writer regularly suddenly crashes in a working session.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENS
When editing a document in LibreOffice Writer, this package or the whole system suddenly crashes sometimes. I cannot reconstruct exactly under which circumstances this happens - it happens always in the middle of an intense working session. After the crash, the system automatically restarts.
I have been experiencing this problem ever since the latest versions of OpenOffice before the transit to LibreOffice. Recently, I found at least an effective workaround - as explained here below.
WORKAROUND
The workaround I have found, consist of preventive and curative measures.
WORKAROUND - PREVENTIVE MEASURES
When editing the document, I save it after each phrase via the command CONTROL-S.
Each +/- 5 minutes, I go back to the folder where the document is: via Dolphin. First I refresh the document list via F5. Than I copy the document into a backup-document under another name.
WORKAROUND - CURATIVE MEASURES
After coming in the system again after such a crash, I go back to the document in which I have been working just before the crash: via Dolphin. After clicking at the document, the LibreOffice document recovery dialogue starts. I choose the option "Open the read-only document". After opening this document, I save the same document under another name, after which I can continue the working session.
By doing so, I manage to recover the document in 9 out of 10 cases.
In about 1 out of 10 cases, I do NOT manage to recover the document. In such a case, I continue the working session in the lastest backup document.
ANSWERS TO SOME OTHER RELEVANT QUESTIONS:
Release of the OS I am using: Kubuntu 11.04.
Version of the package I am using:
LibreOffice 3.3.4
OOO330m19 (Build:401)
tag libreoffice-
What I expected to happen: being able to continue the working session without any unexpected and non-sollicitated interruption.
What happened instead: suddenly LibreOffice crashed and the whole system restarted automatically, without me consciously provoking this course of events.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: libreoffice-core 1:3.3.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 27 13:14:40 2011
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: kwin
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
DistroVariant: kubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation Mobile 945GME Express Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:27ae] (rev 03) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8340]
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8340]
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1001HA
Package: xorg-server (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES=
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcVersionSign
Renderer: Unknown
Tags: natty kubuntu patch
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-12-generic i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 02/26/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1401
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 1005HA
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: 1001HA
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
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affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: kubuntu |
Changed in xorg-server (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
System crash as in not Libreoffice crashes, but the whole desktop session or even the whole OS?
Needs more specific data, likely not an Libreoffice issue itself, but X11 driver or hardware issue.