Bug#728699: libreoffice-calc: calc hangs (100% cpu) on file save sometimes
On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 01:17:22PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2013 at 12:52:47PM +0100, Dejan Muhamedagic wrote:
> > File Save at times makes the Calc completely unresponsive. Tracing with ltrace
> > yields nothing, obviously the program enters an infinite loop taking 100% cpu.
> > The worst is that the file is not saved and work lost. It happened several
> > times in
> > a row. The sheet was created with windose excel (xlsx).
>
> Are you also saving in xls?
Yes.
> Q uick googling gives me
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54720. Which says 3.6.x hasn't
> that problem anymore.
>
> Unfortunately stable will not receive any updates not really critical
> or security. So this will never be fixed there. (Especially as 3.5
> is out of live upstream since looong)
>
> Can you try with a uptodate LO version? backports has a 4.1.2.
OK.
> (The same googling gives me https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70228
> for impress for 4.1.1. With "obviously" no answer from te the submitter..
That description matches what I observed.
> But can you try what was suggested there? Clean user profile?)
The installation is completely new. Anyway, I've already updated
to the backports version. The save seems to work now. I didn't
try Impress though.
Many thanks for the quick reply!
Cheers,
Dejan
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