Bug#473505: openoffice.org-writer: Crashes every time I open a multi-page document
Package: openoffice.org-writer
Version: 1:2.3.1-5
Severity: important
Every time I try in a fresh OpenOffice.org-writer session to open a multipage document, after a brief (probably ~1/2 second) flash of display of page 1 of the document, I get told that "Due to an unexpected error,
OpenOffice.org has crashed," etc., culminating in the message about reconstituting the document next time I start OpenOffice.org. There is never a problem about reconstituting the document, no matter how big, long,
or complex it may be -- IOW, it always succeeds in reconstituting the document and reopening it for any amount of editing work. Unfortunately, openoffice.org-dbg never reports anything in connection with this crash.
I have identified a work-around for this problem: all I need to do is open, say, a spreadsheet, and then close it without closing OpenOffice.org. This apparently "teaches" the system to handle the bigger documents
in openoffice.org-writer. At any rate, once I have done that, then openoffice.org-writer handles any file quite nicely.
It was dismaying to me when the present version of OpenOffice.org showed up in Lenny, because I had already noted the problem in Sid. I then backed up one version by means of locking Sid out of my system, which
cured the problem until the new version was ported to Testing.
I have provided a test file which consistently behaves in this fashion at "http://www.wg32.net/Temple Teachings Book 1 Test without gfx.odt". That's a 2-page document which consistently makes my system crash. Thank
you very much!!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libicu38 3.8.1-1 International Components for Unico
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libwpd8c2a 0.8.14-1 Library for handling WordPerfect d
ii libwps-0.1-1 0.1.2-1 Works text file format import filt
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii openoffice.org-base-co 1:2.3.1-5 OpenOffice.org office suite -- lib
ii openoffice.org-core 1:2.3.1-5 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii python-uno 1:2.3.1-5 Python interface for OpenOffice.or
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages openoffice.org-writer recommends:
ii gij-4.1 [java2-runtime] 4.1.2-16 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii gij-4.2 [java2-runtime] 4.2.1-5 The GNU Java bytecode interpreter
ii java-gcj-compat [java2-runtim 1.0.77-4 Java runtime environment using GIJ
ii libgcj9-0-awt 4.3.0-1 AWT peer runtime libraries for use
ii openoffice.org-filter-binfilt 1:2.3.1-5 Legacy filters (e.g. StarOffice 5.
ii openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.3.1-5 OpenOffice.org office suite Java s
ii sun-java5-jre [java2-runtime] 1.5.0-14-3 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (
ii sun-java6-jre [java2-runtime] 6-00-2 Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (
Versions of packages openoffice.org-core depends on:
ii fontconfig 2.5.0-2 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.4.14-1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcurl3-gnutls 7.18.0-1 Multi-protocol file transfer libra
ii libdb4.5 4.5.20-11 Berkeley v4.5 Database Libraries [
ii libexpat1 1.95.8-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.0-1 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgstreamer-plugins-b 0.10.17-3 GStreamer libraries from the "base
ii libgstreamer0.10-0 0.10.17-2 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.1-0 1.1.9-1 spell checker and morphological an
ii libhyphen0 2.3.1-2 ALTLinux hyphenation library - sha
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libicu38 3.8.1-1 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.7-6.1 OpenLDAP libraries
ii libneon27-gnutls 0.27.2-1 An HTTP and WebDAV client library
ii libnspr4-0d 4.7.0-2 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.0~beta2-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpam0g 0.99.7.1-6 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.0-1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libportaudio2 19+svn20071022-2 Portable audio I/O - shared librar
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libsndfile1 1.0.17-4 Library for reading/writing audio
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.3.0-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxaw7 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Athena Widget library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxinerama1 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.22-1 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii openoffice.org-common 1:2.3.1-5 OpenOffice.org office suite archit
ii ttf-opensymbol 1:2.3.1-5 The OpenSymbol TrueType font
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-11 compression library - runtime
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