Description of problem: OOO Suite crashes when performing certain tasks. Or when under heavy load. Or after long use. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): It probably affets the entire suite so I give you all the versions: rpm -aq | grep openoffice openoffice.org-calc-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 openoffice.org-impress-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 openoffice.org-langpack-nl-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 openoffice.org-draw-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 openoffice.org-writer-2.3.0-6.3.fc8 How reproducible: Many ways to make it crash. For example: - Insert a diagram - Open some sections in the options screen - Inserting some pictures (rare) Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora Core 7.92 (fully updated) 2. Start Openoffice 3. Perform one of the ways to make it crash (as listed above) Actual results: According to OO it's a crash. I'm getting backtraces (see the attachment) Expected results: That it just perfoms the tasks I request it to do. Without backtraces :) Additional info: If you need additional info, feel free to ask :)
Created attachment 231451 [details] Output of the backtraces.
There has been one or two reports, but the previous reports were on nvidia drivers, and so I jumped to the conclusion that it was the 3rd party binary drivers, in this case the driver is vesa. Your desktop is "not GNOME", what env are you running OOo in, KDE ? something else. And what theme are you using, my working theory is that some particular theme is triggering this problem so we definitely need to know that to be able to reproduce this.
I already read the other posts from this bugzilla with probably the same problem. There you said it was probably caused by the nvidia driver (which I use too). So I submitted the reports running the vesa driver. I'm not in Gnome. That is correct. I'm using XFCE with a new theme. What does help is starting an 'empty' X-server with only xterm. Then starting oowriter from xterm solves all the problems. Could be the window manager (xfwm4)? Btw, I can provide a kickstart file for a testing environment if you like.
I need to know the gtk theme, that's the key to this problem I suspect.
Since you said it was environmental related, I started to suspect the window manager... It was the window manager, but more specific: It's theme. I tried the following combinations: metacity + clearlooks (works) xfwm + clearlooks (works) xfwm + thinice (this one is provided with xfce, fails too) metacity + thinice (fails!) So it's a theme issue. Both window managers do good under clearlooks but fail under many other themes (like thinice and divinorum). However, I got divinorum from a theme site so it doesn't count. But thinice comes with XFCE (that is distributed with Fedora!), so that is really broken right?
Oh wait, so that is what you meant with collision, we posted at the same time :P
Yup you were right btw....
That's the one. I can see it now.
*** Bug 333271 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 299681 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Eeek, wrong frees being used. firefox had the same problem as well. Sent patch upstream. Will also include into fedora.
*** Bug 245651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Have fix, but cvs is locked at the moment
cvs unlocked, building
Should be squished in 2.3.0-6.5.fc8
Sorry, not fixed in 2.3.0-6.5.fc8: openoffice.org-langpack-nl-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 openoffice.org-impress-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 openoffice.org-calc-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 openoffice.org-graphicfilter-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 openoffice.org-draw-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 openoffice.org-writer-2.3.0-6.5.fc8 When I chose the thinice or some other skins. The program still terminates. Minor difference is that I get no fancy window with traceback and stuff :( Reopen bug right?
openoffice.org-2.3.0-6.4.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. If you want to test the update, you can install it with su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update openoffice.org'
If I actually *applied* the patch in > F7 we might have more success, that was pretty stupid.
It's not such a big deal :P Tell me when you corrected it and I will try it :)
2.3.0-6.6.fc8 works for me now that the patch is applied
Confirmed, it also works with other themes that are not included in the default installation. Good job :)
openoffice.org-2.3.0-6.4.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.