Bug#490549: [openoffice.org-calc] crash on delete cell with spell checker window

[Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org>]

Hi,

Davide Prina wrote:
>>> 4) press Del button (the button used to cancel the selected text)
>>
>> I find that too unclear, You mean the X in the toolbar (near f(x)). Or
>> which one?
>
> sorry ... I mean the keyboard key "Del", the key that in some keyboards
> is under Ins (Insertion).

Ah, that explains it. The machine I tried it on doesn't have that key so
I didn't get the idea that you mean tht one :)

>> read /usr/share/bug/openoffice.org/presubj, especially IV and V.
>
> I read:
>
> ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<---
> IV) Please attach a backtrace if possible (see README.Debian). Install
>      openoffice.org-dbg before doing this (and the packages it Recommends)
> --->8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8---
>
> $ dpkg -L openoffice.org
> [...]
> /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
> [...]
>
> $ zgrep -i trace /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz
> $

Hrm, indeed. Seems to have been gone. Shouldn't be too hard to run
soffice.bin under gdb, wait for the crash and run "bt2, should it?

> I have installed openoffice.org-dbg, it do not recommends packages ...
> only suggest.

wow. then just install those.
I changed that once because of the new
"recommends-installed-per-defaults"..

> $ strace -f -o /tmp/oocalc_crash.txt oocalc
>
> I attach the file.

strace is not helpful in such cases mostly.
ar
> ---8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<---
> V) If the bug is also in the version you can get from www.openoffice.org
> --->8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8------>8---
>
> but I don't have Sun OOo and I prefer to not install it, also actually I  
> don't have enough space to do that.
> I can check the OOo issue for a similar bug (I don't have found it), but  

I already did, if I found it I'd just have marked it as forwarded
silently.

> don't ask me to install the Sun version ... if I have to install the  
> original version of each package I think I will never fill a bug again.

Hrmpf :-(

Regards,

Rene