Bug#323495: resizing text box locks up system; requires reboot
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.4-5
When I use the mouse to resize a text box in Impress, my system
occasionally locks up. The mouse pointer will still move, but it
continues to use the resize icon, and the GUI is unresponsive. No
keyboard commands will work. I must press the hard reset button on my
computer.
I experience this problem on two different systems with very different
hardware.
System #1
Linux Kernel 2.6.12
Dual AMD Athlon MP 1900
ATI Radeon 8500 LE with ATI fglrx driver version 8.14.13 for X.org
System #2 (does not freeze entirely; I can switch to a console and kill
the process)
Linux Kernel 2.6.12
Intel Pentium III 750 MHz
nVidia GeForce3 Ti 200 with driver version 7664, X.org
Since I cannot restart X on System #1, but I can on System #2, I think the
problem is with the drawing code for the text box. It causes the ATI
system to completely freeze by locking up X, but the nVidia system manages
to deal with it somehow, possibly because their drivers are more solid.
Other information:
* The problem occurs less frequently on System #2.
* Impress appears to do an emergency autosave while crashing on
System #2. It does not do this on System #1.
* The problem occured previously with XFree86 on both systems
* The problem occured previously with older 2.6 kernels on both systems
* This is the only thing that causes these systems to freeze. No other
programs do it.
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