Bug#468174: OpenOffice crashes opening MS-Word-document with tables

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Carsten Kumke wrote:
> Version: 1:2.3.1-5
[...]
> I experienced a problem of openoffice opening MS-Word documents (obviously 
> only those that have tables or background-images incorporated). 
> 
> OO -writer tries to open the document and crashes with "unerklärbarer Fehler". 
> After that operation the opening of orther documents (.odt, ods etc.) is very 
> problematic and in most cases not possible (even if I cancel the recovery 
> function). Reinstalling OO did not help. Erasing /<home>/<user>/.openoffice 
> did not help. 
> 
> This is for me a new bug in relation to former versions; additionally it seems 
> to be a problem of the Debian port: An installation of OO with 
> OOo_2.3.1_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_de.tar.gz works fine. 

Please try a supported version (means 2.4 of sid). 2.3.1 is dead and
I do not care about it anymre at all.

dd> 
> Enclosed a report generated entering
> 
> # strace oowriter PSB-Loneas-2008-01.doc 2> /tmp/oo.org_strace.log 

Not really useful. The binary you want is soffice.bin. And you probably
want strace -f...

And of course, you didn't attach the document, so reproducing this here
is not possible anyway..

Regards,

Rene