Bug#1121009: libreoffice: removing contents then typing Ctrl-Z several times made LibreOffice Writer crash without a coredump
On 2025-11-19 16:52:33 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Am 19.11.25 um 14:57 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> > Package: libreoffice
> Surely not. It's either in -core or in -writer. ;-) libreoffice is
> only a metapackage :)
I actually don't know which one (a coredump would have been useful,
I suppose).
> > Severity: important
> Why? i'd argue it's normal. Especially if it only happens rare. Not
> every crash is important.
Unsaved data are lost. And I don't know whether this is rare (I
don't use LibreOffice very often, so, mathematically, this makes
the proportion of crashes much higher than other software).
> > On a 197 KB .odt file (82 pages), I removed contents, then when
> > I noticed an unexpected break of a cross-reference (the target
> > was still there), I typed Ctrl-Z several times to undo, but at
> > some point, LibreOffice crashed without a coredump.
> >
> > I did not find a way to reproduce the crash.
>
> Which is not exactly helpful for forwarding upstream....
This would have been much more useful if LibreOffice had left
a coredump and/or some logs (such as a history of events).
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