Bug#514112: Openoffice 2.4 (lenny) crashes when opening template files from ooffice 2.0.4
Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1:2.4.1-17
Severity: important
From one day to the other, openoffice started crashing when I tried to
open a spreadsheet.ots that has been set up under openoffice 2.0 from
etch. It asks for a recovery of files, then upon opening crashes no
matter whether I tell it to recover or not. All other spreadsheets that
I tried to open thereafter, crashed, too. I have tried to solve the
problem by renaming the .openoffice.org2 directory and by completely
reinstalling the office suite together with the German menu package and
the German help file. Current status is that I can open all other files,
but it still crashes when trying to open the *.ots file from openoffice
2.0.4. The file itself is not damaged, since it still can be opened by
openoffice 2.0.4 and causes openoffice 2.4 to crash when I copy it to
the other computer with the lenny install. Apparently, ooffice2.4 cannot
handle this file, which is simply an empty template with formulas to
compute averages, standard deviations and min and max values for data
that are supposed to be inserted in future.
When I double-click the file to open it directly, the error message is:
"Durch einen unerwarteten Fehler ist OpenOffice.org abgestürzt. ... Die
folgenden Dokumente werden wieder hergestellt:" (= OpenOffice.org
crashed due to an unexpected error. ... The following documents will be
recovered.)
However, the box below does not show any documents, but is empty.
I am using kernel 2.6.26-1-686 and libc6-i686 2.7-18.
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