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#1

Lo ver 4.4.3.2 Calc under Ubuntu 14.04. I entered "= up arrow" in a cell so the above cell equals the current cell. I have been using this sheet for > 5 years. I use this formula in each years sheet 72 times, this is the first error.

I was able to duplicate it 3 times. The first 2 times I lost the copying and deleting 2 2 groups of cells, about 10 cell data entries. The third time, my laziness kicked in so I started saving each step of the way.
I did the "= up arrow" twice in 1 column and when I tried it on the second column (as before, it crashed) In this case, LO went away and I got an "Ubuntu Sorry, I crashed" message, so it might be an Ubuntu thing or an LO call to Ubuntu.

Each time it was recovered by LO, it took about 20 seconds. The sheet is about 450 lines long, about 4 pages, with links between the pages, but this has never happened before.

John

#2

More: This time I copied from a diffent cell to the same cell as before, immed crash. Also I do three columns like this. The first col was ok, the third col was ok, the lower of the two in the second col was ok, the upper of the second col went boom.

#3

John,

did you get LO from the ubuntu repos?

I tried this under Fedora 23 and LO5.0.1.2 (from the LO website) with no problems.

Cheers

#4

I don't remember, but since I have had a problem with upgrading to the last lts version, I have been unable to do any upgrades using Ubuntu, so if I have upgraded since last July, it was not thru Ubuntu

But I use this sheet almost every day (business accounting). First ever with this problem.

John

#5

As far as Ubuntu upgrades are concerned...

Make sure your source for your packages is set to to a legitimate Ubuntu repository.

If you know how to use /synaptic/, a graphical front end to /apt/, use the /fix broken packages/. If this fails, it will give you a window telling which terminal command to use.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

or

Before using command from a command prompt below, see: http://askubuntu.com/questions/81585/what-is-dist-upgrade-and-why-does-it-upgrade-more-than-upgrade

/sudo apt-get -f dist-upgrade/

After fixing Ubuntu, un-install and then re-install LibreOffice from the Ubuntu repository.

This only implies that it will fix your Calc problem, I'm not sure that it will.