Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 448555
Writer crash with MS Word produced documents
Last modified: 2008-06-06 03:49:57 EDT
Description of problem: When opening some documents, writer hangs with the following crash information (see attached file). The documents are correctly open, but Writer crashes a few seconds later (without any user action). All incriminated documents are opened without problems by Openoffice 2.4 in Windows or other Linux distribution without problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.0-12.8 How reproducible: Almost always when opening the incriminated document alone. When it is opened after others, or when several documents are opened, the crash does not always happen. Unfortunately, I cannot provide any of the incriminated documents for confidentiality reasons. They were produced primarily with Microsoft Word, and contain several embedded objects (including Microsoft Visio graphics). When saving the files to ODT format files, and opening them again, the problem still exists. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the incriminated document in Writer when no other documents are opened 2. 3. Actual results: Writer crashes and shows a backtrace window. Expected results: Writer opens the document without problem Additional info:
Created attachment 306795 [details] backtrace of the crashed writer session
You say you can sometimes open them, if something is already open, so can you use format->character and report what "language" is set on e.g. the first character of the document. Because it looks like a spell-checker related error
I could have sworn I fixed a bug like this before in hunspell, but that should be included in the current version. What's the output of rpm -q hunspell ? Should be hunspell-1.2.1-6 (though for an unrelated fix hunspell-1.2.1-7 is in testing, and that should be ok too) Feel free to email me directly a sample document
Can you try this for me and tell me if it fixes this for you. rpm --upgrade http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/hyphen-2.3.1-2.fc9.i386.rpm
hyphen-2.3.1-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
The hyphen-2.3.1-2.fc9 package solved my problem -- thanks a lot for your support. For information: + The language used in the incriminated documents is set as English (USA). In the original Word documents, they are sometimes set to English (South Africa). + The hunspell version installed here is hunspell-1.2.1-6.fc9.i386
Undoubtedly it's the hyphenation feature colliding with spell checking
hyphen-2.3.1-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 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 hyphen'. You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-4711
hyphen-2.3.1-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.