Solver crashes gnumeric whenever I add constraints

Bug #1054 reported by Steve Laniel
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnumeric (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I had a very simple spreadsheet: two columns of data (x-axis and y-axis), a third column modeling the y-axis data, a fourth column computing the squared error between the model and the data, and two cells with parameters to the model

I had a very simple spreadsheet: two columns of data (x-axis and y-axis), a third column modeling the y-axis data, a fourth column computing the squared error between the model and the data, and two cells with parameters to the model. I wanted the Solver to change those parameters until the sum of the squared error was minimized. So I set the cells in the Solver like you'd expect, then pressed Solve. The Solver told me I needed to set constraints (see the other usability bug I just filed), so I tried to put in the totally perfunctory constraints that the two parameters needed to be nonnegative. Gnumeric crashed. I restarted gnumeric and tried again. It crashed again. I'm willing to say that this is a highly repeatable bug.

Changed in gnumeric:
assignee: nobody → gnome
Revision history for this message
Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. I'm going to upload gnumeric 1.6.2 to Dapper - if you have a chance to test it, it'd be great to hear if it got fixed. The upstream changelog says:
...
    - Fix a pile of leaks in solver and scenario saving and loading.
    - Fix leaks in solver dialog.
    - Fix parser leak. [#301127]
    - Fix solver dialog crash. [#324585]
...

http://bugs.gnome.org/324585 seems to be related.

Changed in gnumeric:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
Revision history for this message
Daniel Holbach (dholbach) wrote :

Marking as fixed, didn't hear back. Please reopen, if the problem still occurs with the gnumeric >= 1.6.2

Changed in gnumeric:
assignee: gnome → desktop-bugs
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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