Description of problem: When Zotero tries to update the references from a .odt document opened with LibreOffice-writer, it freezes (without any error message). It happens at the same time Libreoffice/Zotero asks if we want to update the text of the bibliographic reference. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Libreoffice Writer : Build ID: 6.1.5.2-2.fc29 Zotero : 5.0.61 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a new Libreoffice Document 2. Start Zotero 3. Insert a reference in to the new document 4. Change the text of the reference in the new document 5. Insert a bibliography in that document 6. Libreoffice/zotero askes if we want to update the reference's text or keep it, and freezes. Actual results: Libreoffice freezes. Expected results: Updating the documents' references Additional info: I've reported the issue to Zotero's forum but a developer thinks it has more to do with Fedora and it's packaging of Libreoffice and its dependencies than Zotero : https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/328244#Comment_328244
a) can you give the third line of libreoffice's help->about, so I can see what vcl plug in in use b) wrt... " 3. Insert a reference in to the new document 4. Change the text of the reference in the new document 5. Insert a bibliography in that document 6. Libreoffice/zotero askes if we want to update the reference's text or keep it, and freezes. " can you give the exact step by step, with menu entry names etc, guide to reproduce
a) Version: 6.1.5.2 Build ID: 6.1.5.2-2.fc29 Threads CPU : 4; OS : Linux 4.20; UI Render : GL; VCL: gtk3; Locale : fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded b) 1) Start Zotero 2) Start Writer 3) Click on Zotero's icon to insert a reference 4) Select a reference and click on Ok. 5) Click on the button Insert a bibliography and validate 6) Modify the text associated with zotero's tag within the text. 7) Save the document and quit 8) Open again the document with LibreOffice 9) Click on Refresh the references 10) The LibreOffice's interface freezes with a loading window being displayed from Zotero. Ps : what wrt stands for ?
Created attachment 1544039 [details] recording
A recording above of my effort 1) Start Zotero 2) Start Writer 3) I have "Add/Edit Citation", I presume that's the right one 4) Select a reference and click on ok 5) I have "Add/Edit Bibliography" ("and validate"? is there a missing step I've left out here) 6) I changed some text in the inserted bibliography as in the video (is that what you mean?) 7) Saved, closed the doc (In another run I closed libreoffice and restarted it) 8) Reopened it 9) Clicked on Refresh 10) bibliography refreshed, no freeze for me Have I left out a step ? or done something different from what freezes for you ? Perhaps it matters how many citations are in use or needs a more complicated document structure ? (wrt, with respect to)
It's almost that except the step 6) where you should modify the text with the gray background, the textual reference to the bibliography. «Bla bla bla» (Eistein, 2019) => «Bla bla bla» : said Eistein (2019)
Created attachment 1544044 [details] Example of a crash This time, there isn't any message being displayed by the "Zotero integration"'s window, nut usually, there is a 'yes/no' question about whether we want to update the modified citations.
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The problem is still valid for Fedora 29. I guess it has to do with VCL.
never got a chance to look at this properly, but feel pretty sure that "has more to do with Fedora and it's packaging of Libreoffice and its dependencies than Zotero" is just idle slander
Last update of Zotero, 5.0.72, fixed this issue. It had definitely something to do with Zotero and not with Libreoffice nor Fedora... (I couldn't find the appropriate Status, so I put Closed / Upstream which seems the more suitable.)