Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 434808
openoffice crashed while undoing
Last modified: 2008-02-26 09:41:30 EST
Description of problem: After enterring a row in a table, updating some formulas (one of which referred to a cell in the to be deleted row), then hitting undo multiple times (to the point before the row was enterred), OO crashed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): openoffice.org-core-2.3.0-6.11.fc8-x86_64 How reproducible: did not attempt to reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. Had table with text and formulas. (The first column was computed as previous row value + 1 2. Added new second row in table and new formula. Adjusted formula of now third row. 3. Added text in other columns of new second row. 4. Hit undo a lot. Actual results: System crashed. See crash report generated by OO. Expected results: Not crashing, but undoing all activity. Additional info: See crash report.
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From the crash report a crash in *writer* is indicated, is that correct ? We're talking about tables and formulas in writer, not in calc.
Correct. I was using writer, not calc. (The formula was a simple =<A2>+1 variety.) Also, if it matters, I had 'record changes' on, but 'show changes' off.
After this, OO 2.3.0 crashed 4 times in 10 minutes (same crash message). I downloaded the stock 2.3.1 from the OO.org website and have been running it for a few minutes. Tonight, I'll run memtest and report the results of both the stock 2.3.1 and the memtest tomorrow.
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I believe this is the same root problem in untbl.cxx as http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=82227
Responding to comment #4: memtest ran overnight with no errors and the stock 2.3.1 did not crash yesterday afternoon. Responding to comment #6: Can't say for certain. I've reviewed that bug report and it does seem similar (complex table formats and undo). I had OO v2.3 (from the RPM) crashing just by doing (1) recover file and (2) 'accept all changes'. (I wanted to see if the don't show changes was related to the bug.) In any event, I've abandoned the v2.3 RPM in favor of the stock 2.3.1 tarball.