openoffice crash when saving presentation in powerpoint format

Bug #40481 reported by John Lenz
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OpenOffice
Invalid
Unknown
openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Hey, using the latest dapper (2.0.2). I have a presentation (that I can attach) that when you try and save it, it crashes openoffice. Secondly, when I restart openoffice it tells me "Openoffice.org document recovery process", and asks me to press next to start the recovery.

When the recovery finishes, it says successfully recoverd. Then it says "A report of the crash was created to help us .... Click next to get to the error report tool or press cancel to skip this step"

Problem is, the dialog only has a "Finished" and a "Cancel" button, and the cancel button is grayed out.

1) That dialog needs to be fixed. If I don't have some package installed (I saw a openoffice.org-crashrep or something when I searched in the list of packages), it needs to tell me to install it or something.

2) Where can I get the information that openoffice saved? I poked around in .openoffice, but there wasn't anything in there. I also tried opening openoffice in gdb (had to edit the ooimpress perl script to insert a gdb at the end), but whatever program exited (must have forked and exec), so didn't get any report from there either.

I will try and attach the document, so you can try and get a crash report out of openoffice.

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John Lenz (lenz) wrote : document that crashes openoffice

When you load this into openoffice, then immediatly go File->Save As... and select Microsoft Powerpoint format, openoffice crashes during the save.

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

I downloaded the file. Openoffice takes a while to save it, then crashes when the progress bar gets to the end.

"The application OpenOffice.org (soffice.bin) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV)"

Changed in openoffice.org:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote :

Creating a new presentation, putting something (I tried a line) on it, and saving it as powerpoint does not cause a crash. It's something specific about this file.

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

confirmed with 2.0.4-0ubuntu2

Changed in openoffice:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
Changed in openoffice:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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gnudoc (gnudoc) wrote :

OOo-bugs discussion establishes that the bug is not present in other OSs or in the official build. The test document works fine with current gutsy (1/10/07) - no crash on conversion to ppt.

Changed in openoffice.org:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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