Calc 4.1.3.2 410 crashes on Fedora 19

users
#1

Hi all,

curious if anyone else noticed this - after last update a few days ago
that also updated libreoffice, calc crashes upon startup or when
opening documents. That is, starting libreoffice without any arguments
works, but starting a new spreadsheet or opening a spreadsheet file
(.ods) or running calc from command line crashes. The crash does not
produce any useful debugging information, I only get a message saying

[1]+ Exit 135 libreoffice

and ABRT reports signal 7 (SIGBUS). I wonder whether this is unique to
my machine or whether others can also observe it. I am running a fully
updated Fedora 19,

$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.11.9-200.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Nov 20
21:22:24 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

and libreoffice --version reports

LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 410(Build:2)

#2

Hi Tom,

thanks for the reply, why not send it to the whole list?

Hi :slight_smile:
You could try running LibreOffice from the command-line to see if that
gives you more output after it crashes. This page probably covers
that and other options for getting more info out of your machine.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport

I was running it from command line. I get Exit 135 as the only output.
Following the instructions on the wiki page, I generated a backtrace
and submitted a new bug report.

It might be some interaction between the Extensions and dependancies
so it might be a good idea to try renaming your User Profile to see if
that clears it.
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile

Renaming the profile did not help. To the best of my knowlegde I
didn't install any non-default extensions.

Best,

Peter

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
OOops! I had meant to send it to the users list! Good catch, thanks :slight_smile:

I'm glad the bug-report page did help. With hindsight it makes more
sense that you grumbled about lack of output after running it from the
command-line. Gui apps almost never give output when they crash!
Sometimes a pop-up warning but if the app is crashing it would take
that down at the same time. Obvious really!

If renaming the User Profile didn't fix anything then it's probably
worth renaming it back to regain your old settings.

So i'm kinda 3 for 3 there, apart from having given a useful link.
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

For Linux, If you run the gui app in a shell, sometimes messages are displayed in the shell.
Also, I discovered that some significant messages from KDE (or whatever desktop is being used) can be captured by redirecting the output to a file when invoking KDE. i.e. startx &>logfile
After exiting KDE, logfile should have the messages logged during the KDE session.
hth
Girvin Herr

#5

Hi , I observed crashes of v4.1.3.2 on XP/SP3 when opening certain calc files. I could not trace the cause of the problem. Changing of the user profile did not help.
Additionally I observed crashes when I changed page formats in the format window (F11). Changing to default or customized page formats caused Writer to crash.

I had to give up 4.1.3.2 and went back 4.0.6 just. In 4.0.6 I don't observe any of these above problems. But I miss a few new features of 4.1.3.2...

#6

Hi :slight_smile:
Maybe a dependancy problem somewhere? Can you get one of your package
managers to "fix broken packages" or "check for errors"?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#7

Hi Tom, thanks for the hint but could you please help me on how I have to do what your proposed. My IT knowledge seems to be insufficient.

First maybe let me know what a package manager is and how to start it in XP.

R

#8

Hi :slight_smile:
Sorry, i thought you were using a Gnu&Linux. Windows doesn't have
that sort of feature.

Perhaps just try reinstalling a newer version of LibreOffice instead?
Let us know how that goes, especially if any error messages pop-up
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#9

Thanks Tom for clarification.
R