Bug#389437: KPresenter crashes when trying to open the file flyermall.pps (note: that's .pps, not .ppt)
Package: kpresenter
Version: 1:1.5.2-2
KPresenter crashes when trying to open the file
http://www.flyermall.com/doc/flyermall.pps which has the extension
.pps instead of the usual extension .ppt. PPS stands for PowerPoint
Slide Show.
(Should I have attached the .pps file to this bug? It's freely downloadable.)
About .pps files: I assume these files are created by some option with
a name like File > Save as Slide Show in Microsoft PowerPoint. In
Windows, when you double-click a .pps file and you have PowerPoint
installed, you see a full-screen slide show right away. When you click
the mouse, the show advances one slide. I do not know if it is
possible to edit .pps files by using File -> Open in PowerPoint but I
can check for you.
My prior experiences: I tried catppt(1) on this file twice. The first
time it failed. The second time it displayed part of this file. I also
tried ppthtml(1) and it seems to have displayed the whole file. I will
try OpenOffice next.
NOTE: I do not know if KPresenter crashes on other .pps files. I
haven't tried. To find more, visit:
http://www.google.com/search?q=powerpoint+filetype%3Apps
Console output:
$ kpresenter /tmp/flyermall.pps
Loading file /tmp/flyermall.pps
UserEditAtom
LastSlideID 256
MajorVersion 768
MinorVersion 2716
Offset Last Edit 0
Offset Persist Dir 55833
Document Ref 1
No place for text object! 0
KCrash: Application 'kpresenter' crashing...
Warning: connect() failed: : Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
Backtrace:
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1234946368 (LWP 29402)]
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
...
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)
[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb508fdf7 in Libppt::TextObject::setBulletFlag ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#7 0xb509046d in Libppt::PPTReader::handleStyleTextPropAtom ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#8 0xb509cf0b in Libppt::PPTReader::handleRecord ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#9 0xb509d0c8 in Libppt::PPTReader::loadRecord ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#10 0xb509d4c4 in Libppt::PPTReader::handleContainer ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#11 0xb509d115 in Libppt::PPTReader::loadRecord ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#12 0xb509d4c4 in Libppt::PPTReader::handleContainer ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#13 0xb509d694 in Libppt::PPTReader::loadDocument ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#14 0xb509dd45 in Libppt::PPTReader::load ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#15 0xb509def3 in Libppt::Presentation::load ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#16 0xb507be22 in PowerPointImport::convert ()
from /usr/lib/kde3/libpowerpointimport.so
#17 0xb7d464ba in KoFilterChain::ChainLink::invokeFilter ()
from /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#18 0xb7d4660e in KoFilterChain::invokeChain () from
/usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#19 0xb7d4d7be in KoFilterManager::import () from /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#20 0xb7d4e5da in KoDocument::openFile () from /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#21 0xb7c3947e in KParts::ReadOnlyPart::openURL () from /usr/lib/libkparts.so.2
#22 0xb7d26dfa in KoDocument::openURL () from /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#23 0xb7cf79a9 in KoMainWindow::openDocumentInternal ()
from /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#24 0xb7d2741d in KoMainWindow::openDocument () from
/usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#25 0xb7d3bd78 in KoApplication::start () from /usr/lib/libkofficecore.so.3
#26 0xb7fbee49 in kdemain () from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_kpresenter.so
#27 0x08048482 in ?? ()
#28 0x00000002 in ?? ()
...
I am using Debian Testing. My last dist-upgrade was I think 3 months
ago. I have installed a fair bit of software since. I installed
KPresenter today.
Cheers,
Jason Spiro
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