Created attachment 45441 [details] examplex1.odt 216 pages of lowercase x with a few returns scattered throughout. Downstream bug may be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/753183 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch) Release: 11.04 2) apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen is when one performs via the Terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/753183/+attachment/2005949/+files/examplex1.odt && cp examplex1.odt examplex2.odt && lowriter -nologo examplex1.odt examplex2.odt then closes examplex1.odt via File -> Close, LibreOffice Writer does not crash. 4) What happens instead is the program consistently greyscreens then crashes.
Can you please provide us with a backtrace? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport#How_to_get_backtrace_.28on_Linux.29 Thank you!
Jan Holesovsky, thank you for following up. Regarding the link on how to produce a backtrace, unfortunately it needs to be updated as the first step does not work: cd /opt/libreoffice/program bash: cd: /opt/libreoffice/program: No such file or directory Despite this I performed via the Terminal: cd ~/Desktop && wget https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/753183/+attachment/2005949/+files/examplex1.odt && cp examplex1.odt examplex2.odt && lowriter -nologo examplex1.odt examplex2.odt && sudo gdb 2>&1 | tee backtrace.txt Attached gdb to the process id via the Terminal: attach 15131 Attaching to process 15131 Reading symbols from /bin/dash...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Reading symbols from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 0x00ce8416 in __kernel_vsyscall () (gdb) continue Continued the process via the Terminal: continue Closed examplex1.odt by clicking File -> Exit, both files closed but gdb notes it did not crash as per Terminal output: Program exited normally. The same procedure outside of gdb did not produce a crash. I recently updated a ton of packages so seems fixed now... lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch) Release: 11.04 apt-cache policy libreoffice-writer libreoffice-writer: Installed: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 Candidate: 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 Version table: *** 1:3.3.2-1ubuntu2 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
@Christopher: I updated the instructions -- it is /usr/lib/libreoffice/program on Ubuntu/Debian. Its important to run gdb on the soffice.bin executable, not any of the wrapper scripts.
Still cant reproduce with upstream master,