Bug#440974: openoffice.org-writer: OO.O-writer document causes 2.3 version to hang on loading

[David Liontooth <liontooth@cogweb.net>]

Rene Engelhard wrote:
> I don't think thia is related to the original bug submitters' bug cause-
> By the way this looks like 395354 but this got fixed longer ago.
>   
You're correct -- it's the same bug. I was one of the reporters, and the 
bug was taken care of by an xorg patch. However, it looks like that 
patch was since disabled.

I just ran cmc's test case (below) and it locks X11 instantly, 
indicating the same bug is biting. I'm doing the test over VNC, so I get 
to just watch and laugh this time.

Could you split out this bug report, reassign, and upgrade the severity? 
Or should I submit a new report?

It's not an OOo bug, it should be moved to X11, I suggest xserver-xorg-core.

Some background

The previous occurrence was widely documented:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10525
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=75578
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=395354
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411287
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433131
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=245711

There's a Fedora patch at 
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/xorg-x11-server/xserver-1.3.0-xkb-and-loathing.patch?view=markup

Something like it was applied in Debian on Thu, 09 Aug 2007:

xorg-server (2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12) unstable; urgency=low

 [ Brice Goglin ]
 * Add 51_xkb-and-loathing.diff to fix a hang in OpenOffice.org

And then promptly disabled in the Sat, 18 Aug 2007 update:

xorg-server (2:1.3.99.0-1) experimental; urgency=low

 [ Julien Cristau, David Nusinow ]
   + 51_xkb-and-loathing.diff disabled for now.

The X-strike team will no doubt know what happened.  The test case below 
freezes X11 at 100% CPU utilization and xorg has to be -9 killed.

Cheers,
Dave


/*
* gcc keyboard.c -lX11
* ./a.out
*/


#include </share/usr/include/X11/Xlib.h>
#include </share/usr/include/X11/XKBlib.h>

#include </share/usr/include/stdio.h>

int main(void)
{
   XkbDescPtr pXkbDesc = NULL;
   Display * pDisplay = XOpenDisplay(NULL);

   pXkbDesc = XkbGetKeyboard(pDisplay, XkbAllComponentsMask, 
XkbUseCoreKbd );

   if (pXkbDesc)
   {
       const char* pAtom = NULL;
       if( pXkbDesc->names->groups[0] )
       {
           pAtom = XGetAtomName( pDisplay, pXkbDesc->names->groups[0] );
           printf("Keyboard Name is %s\n", pAtom);
           XFree( (void*)pAtom );
       }

       XkbFreeKeyboard( pXkbDesc, XkbAllComponentsMask, True );
   }

   XCloseDisplay(pDisplay);
   return 0;
}