Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 197761
OpenOffice randomly locks system
Last modified: 2008-05-06 20:34:48 EDT
OpenOffice will randomly and instantly hard lock the kernel. The system doesn't respond to pings or magic-sysrq. This can usually be triggered eventually by mousing through the menus. This might be related to x86-on-AMD64 emulation (this is an AMD64 system), but I have no reason to justify that suspicion other than a gut instinct. This has happened on every kernel version that I can ever remember running with OpenOffice.
I have seen OOo trigger a hang in X (which sometimes goes away after a few minutes), which might look like a kernel bug if your X hardware driver was caught at an unlucky timing. Can you reproduce this problem with the latest X RPMs ?
Well, the system stops responding to pings and ssh doesn't connect, so it's more than just a simple X bug. It hasn't happened it quite some time, but I've been using xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.0-25.fc6 rebuilt for use on FC5, so maybe it was just X driver problem.
OK, it happened again on a FC6 system with 64-bit OOo packages, so I'm no longer inclined to suspect the kernel's 32-on-64 emulation. Blaming it on X (or, more specifically, the R200 driver) seems more reasonable at this point.
In http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070813.160904.0c8331a8.en.html something similar (OOo hanging Xorg when menu is selected) is reported as fixed in a later xorg release. I still see this with FC6 x86_64's current(?) Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.1.1-47.10.fc6
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